Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team this year has ten men in it. The number varies, since it is yacht club poiley to give as many of its better sailors as it can a chance to compete in events...
Even with the heavy program of racing, the yacht club still finds time for one or two off-the-record events. It is at present considering going to a mid-winter sailing carnival at Vassar. The only sailing there would be done vicariously in the form of movie-shows, however, and the rest of the meet will be given over to a picnic and a dance...
...presidential yacht Williamsburg would soon sail for Key West, and Truman expects to follow by air on Nov. 8. It will be the President's first real vacation in almost eight months, and, if he sticks to the present plan for a five-week stay, the longest since he took office...
Before leaving on a reporting trip to Indo-China, Writer Graham Greene accepted the invitation of Sir Alexander Korda for a cruise on the Korda yacht Elsewhere around the Greek islands, through the Dardanelles to Istanbul. Among the other glittering guests: Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn...
...consideration of the $3,700,000 the Egyptian government appropriates for "among other things, repair of the royal yacht and of palace walls" and $2,000-a-day on-the-Riviera costs, could you not persuade our Congress to divert that "trickle of Point Four aid" from Egypt to local fields...