Word: speedboat
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Montgomery Ward Thorne seemed to have everything. He grew up with a $4,200 model railroad, a collection of guns, a speedboat and an Oldsmobile convertible. If he had reached his 21st birthday next October, he would have come into a fortune. His father, Gordon Thorne. a hard-drinking heir of a Montgomery Ward & Co. founder, had left his fourth wife and their son Monty $3,000,000 in trust. But Monty's life was full of unhappiness, and his death was full of horror...
...pleasure dome which will be the flagship of Onassis' cargo and tanker fleet. Trimmed in marble, mosaics and lapis lazuli (cost: $3.50 per square inch), the yacht will have a top speed of 18½ knots, will tote- among other frills-a doctor's operating room, sailboat, speedboat and amphibian airplane. When he has nothing else to do (such as dropping in at Monte Carlo's famed Casino, which he owns, crap tables and all), Onassis will rough it on the Christina and use her for an office...
...upper arm and a plea of "Hide me" on his lips. A Congressman's son has been killed in a shooting brawl, and Randy is sure he will be tagged with the rap. Rowdy not only hides him, she takes charge of his getaway by car and speedboat...
Died. John Cobb, 52, London fur broker and world's auto speed champion (394.19 m.p.h. for one mile, at Utah's Bonneville Flats in 1947); in a speedboat accident; on Scotland's Loch Ness. Trying to break the world's one-mile speedboat record (178.4 m.p.h. held by Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud...
...Bruce Parker and Evelyn Wolford, the world's long-distance water ski record. Trying to make a nonstop, 196-mile ski from Nassau to Miami behind a speedboat, the couple hit a squall, were spilled by 20-ft. waves after traveling about 135 miles...