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...also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik. Friendly guards looked the other way. Before Boumedienne got the word several hours later, Aït Ahmed had been whisked to the coast ten miles away and put on a yacht bound for Europe...
...Ridder Publications, a multimillion-dollar chain of 24 newspapers (Journal of Commerce, St. Paul Pioneer Press), run by a family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...
...countered by setting a date to lock workers out of 90% of Sweden's industries. Only the cozy personal relations between the chairmen of the opposing federations, who have been negotiating with each other for so long that sometimes they take their wives along and talk aboard a yacht, resolved the deadlock. The settlement may prove nearly as disastrous as a strike, by pricing Swedish goods out of world markets. Swedish labor-already the highest paid in Europe-won a package of shorter hours and higher pay that will boost employers' wage costs by 30% over three years...
...would make it there at all. But then the stout Boy Scout commissioner and five other loyal subjects on the tiny British West Indian isle of Nevis pleaded that Queen Elizabeth II not ignore them on her month-long Caribbean tour. And so she came. As the royal yacht Britannia docked at the jetty, nearly all 13,000 Nevisians were dancing in the streets. Then with endless royal waves, Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove off through the cotton and sugarcane fields to pay a gracious call at the birthplace of one of the Crown's less loyal subjects-Alexander...
...France, including two Mediterranean islands. Bendor, the smaller one, has hotels, clubs and a convention hall. "Over 300,000 tourists take my boat to Bendor every year," brags Ricard. "That's more than the French Line transports across the Atlantic." The larger island, Embiez, is being developed, with yacht basins, luxury hotels, a casino and theater. Looking well ahead, Ricard grandly calls it "the resort of the year...