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...great wet open spaces. But for beginners, there are certain advantages in water skiing desert-style. It is relatively cheap; Maxwell sells three turns around the slightly more than half-mile course for 50?, versus about $15 an hour for a motorboat and driver. There is no speedboat wake to cope with. And after a spill it is only a short wade to shore in a mere five feet of water...
...skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks a rifle butt over a thug's skull, commandeers a speedboat and belts down a couple of drinks-all to help recover a fabulous emerald necklace...
...Charley writes of his headmaster: "He it was who baptized and confirmed me, he who talked to me of my doubts and miseries, he who gave me a love that made the shallow, prattling love of shallow, prattling parents seem like spray on one's face in a speedboat at sea. Yes, hope is only in him. Redemption is only...
...First Lady watched from a white speedboat while her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, went water skiing on Vouliagmene Bay. Later she was driven 26 miles to Tatoi Palace, a forested retreat in the foothills of Mount Parnes, for tea with King Paul and Queen Frederika...
...case of like father, unlike son. Patriarch I. W. Schlesinger had built his $84 million real estate and cinema-chain empire on thrift, hustle and an eye for the shape of things to come. At 26, Son John was a Harvard-educated playboy with plenty of hustle in a speedboat race and a keen eye for judging beauty queens. But John Schlesinger, after 14 years of stewardship, has fooled everyone. He has not only preserved his father's empire, but has also given it a new and imaginative direction. In the process, he has become Africa's biggest...