Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river. Despite the two-city rivalry, all The Netherlands celebrated, and Queen Juliana herself was at the helm of the first ship to pass through the canal-the royal yacht...
...British Admiralty placed an order with a Clydebank shipyard for a new yacht for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. The new 380-ft. craft, which is expected to be finished in X953) will replace the obsolete 53-year-old royal yacht Victoria and Albert...
Jane sings One for My Baby in a gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...
Sailing is of course one of springtime's major sports. Most people haven't got a private yacht moored at Marblehead or even a battered dinghy hidden in some cove along the Charles, but enthusiasts can procure membership in the Harvard Yacht Club for the paltry sum of five dollars. After passing a boat-handling test, the expert can sail to his heart's content almost any afternoon from the M.I.T. boathouse, thanks to an agreement whereby Harvard men may use Tech's dinghies...