Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Sir Winston Churchill, as he often does on his Riviera holidays, lunched with Aristotle Onassis aboard Onassis' yacht Christina in Monte Carlo harbor. Sir Winston ate and drank as heartily as ever. When he reported feeling ill that afternoon, the physician who usually treats him at Monte Carlo, Dr. David M. Roberts, thought it might be indigestion. Next morning it was clear that whatever ailed Churchill was more than indigestion. The old warrior abandoned his plans to meet Lady Churchill, arriving from London at the Nice airport, and took to his bed. An eddy of concern welled...
...trim, 110-ft. U.S. yacht Valinda stood at anchor off Ecuador's Galápagos Islands in predawn darkness. The weather was balmy; the yacht's owner, Los Angeles Attorney William Rhodes Hervey Jr., 48, dozed on deck. Suddenly Hervey was roused by the chugging engines of two ancient fishing boats pulling alongside. Remembering a warning about seagoing thieves among the islands, he warned the boats to keep off, tried to kick one of them from Valinda's side...
...ailing president of the International Union of Operating Engineers (cranes, bulldozers, drilling rigs; membership 270,000), who declined to testify last month before Senator John McClellan's labor-management rackets-investigation subcommittee. The committee said that Maloney's union gave him a 47-ft., $35,000 yacht, three race-track memberships, a country-club membership and a Washington apartment. Investigators also declared that Maloney (salary: $50,000 a year) had a knack for collecting double and treble on his expense accounts. Once he traveled to Europe on behalf of the U.S. Labor Department, collected $1,001 from...
...resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser in the first place to have concealed all of it: wall around the big estates, and abolish from the newspapers those brides in the expensive veils, and keep the cameramen away from the yacht races." There is about Hayes's central character an air of minor damnation, the more poignant because it is insignificant. When struck by thought, she rings dreadfully hollow-and in her hollowness, she sometimes rings true...
...extent of Roosevelt's extracurricular interests can be seen in a list of his activities. He belonged to the Fly Club, the Hasty Pudding, the Institute of 1770, the Dickey, the Signet Society, the Social Service Society, the Political Club, the Yacht Club, the Glee Club, the Memorial Society, the St. Paul's Society, and the Harvard CRIMSON...