Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which you pour your money." Docking fees run anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club near Wichita, Kans., to $10 per day at the crowded slips in Newport. Yearly maintenance on a 23-ft. Star-class racer costs between $500 and $1,000-and the annual tab for a 40-ft. ocean-racing yawl can top five figures...
Keep It Low. Much has been made of Intrepid's second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Fred Astaire, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds and Tab Hunter star in The Pleasure of His Company...
...inside California, has asked approval to fly the Orange County-San Francisco run, but so far the state has withheld permission. For its part, Air Cal woos local loyalty through such amenities as free airport parking, quality booze (Chivas Regal, Beefeater, Jack Daniel's) for the standard $1 tab, and eye-catching stewardesses' uniforms (orange and ochre with Spanish-style capes and hats). More than half of its stewardesses are Orange County housewives who quit other airlines to marry. They are, of course, happy to fly again with the line that gets them home every evening...
They threw $50,000 parties for 1,000 guests, lived in a $250,000 house near Dallas, had three ranches with Black Angus cattle, drove His and Her Cadillacs, and proudly showed visitors a photo signed: "As ever, Lyndon B. Johnson." The tab for all this, starting in 1962, came to more than $3,000,000. But why not? Though Ernest Medders, 57, was only a $50-a-week mechanic's helper, barely able to feed his wife Margaret and ten children, he told folks that he was about to inherit an oilfield worth $500 million. So everybody lent...