Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spartan scorn for the good life. Last week he returned from a vacation cruise aboard the yacht of a wealthy friend. Was he by any chance accepting a questionable favor? "Only demagogues," snaps Muñoz, "cannot afford to be seen anywhere except drinking bad gin with a man who has no shoes on." He has a mighty temper and lusty tastes. There is only one liquor he is cool toward -much to the distress of the promoters of Puerto Rico's excellent rums. After chain-smoking most of his life, he gave it up nine years...
Lost Shoal. Near Brisbane, Australia, Navigation Expert Joshua Peter Bell, author of Moreton Bay and How to Fathom It, ran his yacht aground in Moreton...
When the Miami wing of the Civil Air Patrol first got a bill for dockage of a 64-ft. yacht, the Mayan, at a Fort Lauderdale marina, Lieut. Colonel Claude F. Lowe, executive officer, just laughed and laughed. Everybody knew the Miami CAP was so poor that its members had to pay their own office phone bills. Then, when a Coral Gables man called to ask if he too could give the CAP a yacht, Lowe began to think that something was fishy...
With the help of other CAP members, he started nosing around the harbors, to his astonishment soon found two yachts with stickers identifying them as CAP property. Then he heard from the Miami Customs Office about six or seven other yachts, worth around $500,000, that in recent months had temporarily been listed as CAP property before getting other owners. The mystery of the yachts soon focused down on Miami Dock Owner Harold E. Manning, who explained that for some time he had been in the business of stocking, chartering and selling yachts that well-heeled Miamians had given...
...Maintain Security." By last summer the Miami yacht case was burning up the wires between Florida wing CAP headquarters and Washington. Washington appointed the deputy commander of the New York CAP, Colonel A. W. Sutter, to go to Florida to investigate. Sutter messaged ahead: "As you realize, this is a highly confidential and personal matter, and in my opinion the fewer people cognizant the less embarrassing. It is alleged that in the neighborhood of $400,000 is involved." Falling in with Sutter's theme, Washington CAP headquarters ordered the Miami CAP: "Cease all investigation. Maintain security...