Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht up the Paraná River, later completing the trip...
...Long Island's Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, the Skoal Trophy Race for International Class sloops, from Oslo's Royal Norwegian Yacht Club; on Long Island Sound. Begun in 1951, the race alternates between Norway and Long Island; last year, sailing on their home waters, the Norwegians...
...Crane-Simplex, which in 1915 cost $30,000 and was guaranteed for the life of its owner. Designed to look like a luxurious yacht, it sported brass funnels and a propeller in the rear to hold on two spare wire wheels. The wooden trim and running boards were teakwood. Yet for all its wonderful nautical absurdity, it could do 75 m.p.h. Unfortunately for the guarantee, the company folded a few years after it started...
...Charles Mott, a director of General Motors since 1913, chairman of the board of U.S. Sugar Corp. and member of innumerable organizations (e.g., American Legion, United Spanish War Veterans, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Elks, Moose, Masons), still works hard at his goal. He pops into his paneled office every working day, keeps it filled with fresh flowers and humming with fresh ideas. Recently he helped build four new schools, especially designed with auditoriums and gymnasiums which the whole town can use. "We must build back to community activities," says Mott, "to get people to know their neighbors and bring about...
From his suite of offices high in the Telegraph building on Fleet Street, Camrose keeps a close watch on his empire, an even closer watch on the Telegraph. On his 742-ton yacht he has a ship-to-shore phone, often calls staffers in the middle of the night; in his country home he has a teleprinter that keeps him in direct contact with the paper so "that I can watch the fine details, the way leaders are written, or the way type...