Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this particular tense juncture of the Kremlin's hue and cry against Yugoslavia, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last week took off in King Farouk's old yacht for a long-scheduled reunion with Marshal Tito...
...best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...
...than to have him marry a nice American girl? Think what this would do for friendly relations between his country and the United States." The general met Zsa Zsa for dinner and moved into a $2,500-a-month mansion until he can start a cruise on the Trujillo yacht Angelita.* Happily, Zsa Zsa began to plan a party aboard the yacht...
Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...
...Factor. When the race committee had completed its calculations and the winners in each class were announced, it was Yacht Designer Stephens (who stayed home all the while) who did as well as anyone. Not only had he produced Winners Finisterre and Good News, he was also responsible for the three class A leaders (on corrected time) Legend, Gesture, Argyll. Class C Winner Glory was one of his boats; so was Golliwogg, runner-up to Finisterre for the overall trophy...