Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself through a brisk show of business-as-usual, talking California politics with Jimmy Roosevelt, laying a cornerstone in the blazing Washington heat, addressing the Boy Scouts at Valley Forge. At week's end, with a more buoyant step, he strode up the gangway of the Presidential Yacht Williamsburg at Philadelphia, to join daughter Margaret on a quick, quiet cruise to Washington. He had made the big decisions; the next steps would come from Tokyo, Korea-and Moscow...
Boarding the gleaming white presidential yacht Williamsburg, the nation's No. 1 hired man took a leisurely overnight cruise down the Potomac to Quantico, Va., with the ship hardly moving faster than the current, which suited the poker players in the presidential quarters fine. "I could have walked down faster," groused a Secret Sendee...
Back on the Williams burg, the President burnished the yacht rail with his elbow like a Gay Nineties bartender, and called to reporters, "What'll you have, boys...
...first time in its history, the Yacht Club is placing an entry in the biennial ocean yacht race from Newport, Rhodo Island, to Bermuda. The sailors, who normally confine their activities to dinghies, have chartered the 52-foot, gaff-headed Alden schooner "Troubador" (above) for the race...
Also competing will be five vessels from the United States Naval Academy yacht squadron and the 68-foot yawl "Tabor Boy," training ship for Tabor Academy in Marion...