Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country-club living," they say in exasperation, not the enclave of air-conditioned colonial privilege that it has been portrayed, not an opulent anachronism in a world of nationalism. They point to the termites at work on their houses, the jungle growing up to the kitchen door, the "yacht club" at Gatun Lake that amounts to little more than a raft children dive from, while their parents drink beer and cook the family dinner: barbecued Panamanian beef. The club, like the zone's four non-military golf courses, was built by the employees, not the company...
...they define themselves. A total of 45 churches serve the population. Local Boy Scouts are active. The zone has Little Leagues, an Elks Club, Masons, Knights of Columbus, two American Legion clubs, ROTC at Balboa and Cristobal High Schools, gun clubs, credit unions, six riding clubs, four beaches, four yacht clubs. If it is not an immense country club, the zone does offer the Americans there an agreeable life. Whatever the merits of Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera's case for Panamanian control of the zone, few would readily give up their lives...
Cottage Park Yacht Club hosted the major event of the weekend, the New England Dinghy Championships, held Saturday and Sunday on Boston Harbor. Harvard edged out URI and MIT in the final race to finish third and qualify for the national championships behind Tufts and Yale...
...forgave his defects because of his assets. "He had Last Supper eyes. I would look in his eyes and cry." He taught her to fly, and she liked to tease him by putting the plane into a spin. They were married, says Terry, in 1949 on Hughes' yacht The Hilda, off San Diego. Later, she contends, Hughes reportedly destroyed the record of the wedding in the ship...
...Harvard sailing team had the wind knocked out of its sails over spring vacation as it recorded mediocre finishes in the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at MIT and the New York Yacht Racing Intersectional Meet at King's Point Merchant Marine Academy...