Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Paul of Greece wanted a yacht. Time was when a crowned head could have got himself a yacht (or five yachts) as easily as an American businessman gets himself a Buick. But times have changed. When word reached Washington that the King had ordered a yacht in the U.S. (cost: $220,000), the State Department waggled a warning finger. With Greece still in want and still supported by U.S. taxpayers' money-as U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy had explained it to the Greek government-it had no business spending so much money on royal yachting...
...vain did Greek officials explain that the yacht would actually save Greece money: when the King goes visiting among Greece's hundreds of islands, he now requires a destroyer, which is more expensive to operate than a nice new yacht would be. But Peurifoy did not see it that way. This week, palace spokesmen announced sadly that King Paul had cancelled the purchase of his dream boat...
Harry Truman sat on the weather deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg and bared his white chest to the sun. It was his first trip away from Washington since last March, but it was not complete escape. Each morning, courier seaplanes skimmed into the water alongside the presidential, yacht in Chesapeake Bay and delivered locked leather pouches from the White House...
...cluck-cluck and a posture of anxious finger-wagging) was not otherwise apparent in the President's behavior. His other problems were itchy and only skin-deep. Under his jauntiness, there had recently been a note of weariness. His physician, Brigadier General Wallace H. Graham, announced from the yacht that the President was in "swell shape." But the President had been troubled with a nasty head rash, which showed pink above his ears and caused him to reduce the frequency of his haircuts...
...other skippers besides Scully were Jim Nathanson in Division A and Charlie McElroy and Tim Brown in B. According to one prominent Yacht Club member the reason for the Crimson's victory was that "we just slipped our First Division skipper in before M.I.T...