Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...
...with a Paper-Mate pen, which he gave to Castro. The rebel chieftain regarded it amusedly, unscrewed the cap, took out a typed onionskin message from Fidelistas in Santiago de Cuba and read it, humming and rocking. Castro is a fighter; 16 months ago he invaded Cuba from a yacht. But he is also an articulate man interested in words, manifestoes, books (he treasures a volume of Montesquieu) and the language of ideas...
Outdoor Amours. When another family, the nouveau riche Jorgensons, turns up in the harbor on a rented yacht and takes rooms at the inn, the Hunters go into a tizzy. Ken Jorgenson is a hearty Midwestern manufacturing tycoon, but years before he was a lowly swimming instructor on Pine Island, cruelly taunted by the rich young summer crowd. Ken's whiny wife Helen is a cellophane-wrapped neurotic, untouched by life. Their 13-year-old daughter Molly is an adolescent sleeping beauty waiting to be kissed into existence. The kiss comes, of course, from Johnny, but before that...
...stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members to take some sort of action to save the regime, i.e., the princes' enormous financial allowances...
...other man. Pharmaceutical Tycoon Dirceu Fontoura, 46, handed Linda a second lesson in Brazilian playboy manners. After a party on Fontoura's yacht, Linda happily told newsmen Fontoura had proposed. Questioned by reporters, Fontoura gleefully chuckled: "Linda Christian? I think I met her once." He denied that she was ever on his yacht, denied proposing. "She's a funny girl. She must be playing games or making jokes." Before any more games could be played with her, Linda hopped a plane for Miami...