Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy-O" (his Greek friends, however, called him "Telis," the diminutive of Aristotle), he was the prime mover of the jet set. He had residences in half a dozen cities, an Ionian island of his own and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the Christina, a 325-ft. rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted with gold-plated faucets. He also-as gossip-column readers well knew-enjoyed the company of beautiful and famous women. Fittingly, he had the ultimate jet-set consort: he startled the world...
After a short stop in the Bahamas, Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Prince Philip, made an official visit to Mexico last week aboard the royal yacht Britannia. Meanwhile, back in Britain, some of her more disgruntled subjects in the House of Commons were wondering how much longer the country can keep her ship of state afloat in the style to which it has become accustomed-upkeep of the Britannia alone averages $19,000 a day. At issue was the Queen's request for an increase, from $2.3 million to $3.3 million, in the Civil List, the government-provided allow...
...that includes equerries, stable grooms and pot scrubbers, as well as secretaries and clerks. The Civil List, however, is only a part of the estimated $14 million spent annually to maintain the monarchy. The government also picks up the tab for three of the five royal residences, the royal yacht, a seldom used royal train and a royal helicopter fleet...
...still has a fortune estimated at up to $500 million, based on a worldwide shipping and commercial empire. That permits him the luxury of enjoying lavish residences in several countries, his own private island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, and probably the world's most formidable private yacht, the 325-ft. Christina. Above and beyond that, he is the husband of the world's most publicized beauty-Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 45, widow of the assassinated 35th President...
...stable. Today the wealthy are preparing for revolution or Communism or whatever, and want to use the cash while it will still buy something. The more they speak poor, the more they are spending rich." The scion, who has homes in Manhattan and Bermuda, is shopping for a new yacht...