Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...with some of his products, notably the Gourmet line, intends to make some changes. Says he: "At one of these business things I go to, the dowager wife of some fancy businessman sitting next to me said, 'Oh, Mr. Mortimer, your gourmet foods are wonderful. We stock the yacht with them.' And I thought to myself, 'Yeah, that's what's wrong with that business-not enough yachts...
...Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in his eye. The soft sell has replaced the hard...
...autocratic, with a fierce glare that could wither a man at 30 paces. Alexander is relaxed, cordial, full of a dry wit. He speaks with a Tennessee drawi. talks about mules as easily as about the national debt. While J. P. Morgan roamed the world in his 302-ft. yacht Corsair, Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief...
Although unwilling to predict the team's success in other single races, Parker did say that from its vantage point of being National titleholder, the team "certainly should finish well," particularly if a number of new freshmen and sophomores join the Yacht Club...