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...Replacing the old Communist Party paper Hoy (done away with last October) and named after the 62-ft. yacht in which Fidel and 8-1 followers sailed from Mexico to launch the Cuban revolution. The name is a corruption of "Grandmother...
...year? Eh bien, mes amis, this year France gets her revenge. October 14th is the 900th anniversary of the subjugation of the Anglo-Saxons by that doughty Norman, William the Conqueror. The five departments of ancient Normandy are planning all sorts of festivities, starting in April and including a yacht race to Hastings across the Channel as well as to what should be a well-attended convention of all the descendants of the Conqueror's army...
Except for the main titles and the cuties, almost everything in Thunderball is disappointing. The underwater scenes in the picture are well-photographed but painfully slow. The gadgetry -- one and two-man underwater sleds, a yacht that sheds its cabin to become a hydroplane, and so forth -- does not seem especially ingenious. And Bond's "dead-pan quips" are exemplified by his remark after impaling a SPECTURE agent against a tree: "I guess he got the point...
...didn't appear in the gossip columns, Niarchos had been cruising on the horizon of Charlotte's new life for more than a year. During the summer of 1964, he sailed into Villefranche aboard his three-masted schooner, Creole, which is the world's largest yacht. Only a couple of waves away was the Fords' yacht Santa Maria. Soon Niarchos' launch was running a veritable shuttle between the two yachts...
Last summer the Creole trailed the Fords' yacht all over the Mediterranean. When the season was over, Charlotte announced to her parents that she was going to marry Niarchos. The Ford family handled it well, and not a word leaked out. Explained one member of the family: "The worry wasn't that they would get married-we accepted that. We were urging finesse in handling the whole affair...