Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Presidents have relished the perquisites, their aides have liked them even more, which has contributed to the problem. One can recall Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, ensconced on the fantail of the presidential yacht, his cigar aglow as White House waiters plied his friends with food and drink, and soft music wafted over the waters of Palm Beach. "You'd better enjoy it now," said one observer to Salinger, "because when you go out of office, it's all over." Salinger grinned widely, tapped the ash off his cigar, and replied: "Do I ever know...
...Your belittling comments on the round-the-world yacht race [March 11] are typical of the feeling in the U.S. today toward anything that is "not invented here...
...yacht Great Britain II was a week's sail from Capetown when her fresh-water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into...
...Even Batista was not welcome in the Havana yacht club because he had black blood," he said...
...order to take the company back, Levitt is coming out of a comfortable three-year retirement, much of which he spent aboard his yacht, La Belle Simone, one of the world's largest. Now he intends to resume active management. "It has got to be restructured," he says...