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...Crimson squad, which qualified Saturday at Tufts for the New England Championships behind skippers Leggett and Black, will have to spread themselves thin next weekend. Harvard will be the only New England team to send representatives to the Ivy championships here on the Charles, the Yacht Racing Invitational at King's Point. New York and the Frils regatta at Tufts...
Born in 1903, the only child of idle-rich Edwardians ("many people were richer, there can have been few who were idler"), young Clark basked off the Riviera on the new yacht his father bought more or less annually. The Clarks had the sort of wealth to maintain on their estate a nine-hole golf course complete with pro, even though neither parent played the game. The boy's only sport was walking about the family bogs soliloquizing, a practice he claimed prepared him for television...
Just before young Margaret goes aboard to begin a Mediterranean cruise, her mother comments that Rosebud is an odd name for a yacht. Yes, the girl replies, it has something to do with some film. It has something to do with Citizen Kane, of course. After Margaret's annunciation of such cultural obliviousness, it is difficult to work up too much alarm when she and her four equally dim-witted friends are kidnaped by Arab terrorists who start trading their lives, one by one, for compliance with ever-increasing demands...
...Jackie both his villa on the French Riviera and a hacienda in Mexico. But Christina will surely take over the family's regal penthouse on Avenue Foch in Paris and the 500-acre Skorpiós; the day after the funeral, she took command of the 325-ft. yacht that bears her name by informing the captain and crew that their jobs were all secure...
...inflatable also is his workshop, where he is finishing plans for a bubble aviary for a zoo, a bubble house for a neighbor (cost: about $6,000), and was working on a bubble to fit over the helicopter on the deck of the late Aristotle Onassis' yacht. He is also negotiating with Algeria about building an entire inflatable resort town. In fact, there is nothing that Müller would not consider enclosing in a bubble to improve the human condition. "Inflatables give you a sense of self-reliance," he says. "There are no walls to hide behind...