Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper was purchased 81 years ago by Pete Miller's father. Pete and his brother Donald, who died in November, made the Eagle and its three sister papers in the vicinity their life's work. "Neither of us," says Pete, "had any expensive interests, like keeping a yacht or a woman on the side. It isn't a large family full of cousins and in-laws bleeding the business...
...William Buckley's marijuana-was it delivered to his yacht by helicopter or carrier pigeon...
Died. L. (for Lewis) Francis Herreshoff, 82, master yacht designer; in Boston. Most widely known for his do-it-yourself designs, Herreshoff built handsome wooden yachts, including Whirlwind, a 1930 contender to defend the America's Cup; and Ticonderoga, a trim, graceful 72-ft. ocean racer (built in 1936), which won the 1966 Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu...
...true, that legend about Howard Hughes having a druidical beard and toenails two inches long? Indeed it is, according to Bob Rehak, who says that he skippered an 83-ft. yacht that spirited the millionaire recluse from Paradise Island to Miami last February. When Hughes arrived on board, Rehak told the Miami Herald, he was on a stretcher, and his five aides "had him under some sort of dope. He'd open his eyes and they would roll to the back of his head." Rehak adds: "He had this real stringy beard. His hair was down over his shoulders...
...ketch Gipsy Moth IV won him international fame; of anemia caused by a malignant spinal tumor; in Plymouth, England. Though he became the archetype of the master seaman, Chichester set the world's record for the longest solo flight in a seaplane in 1931. He bought his first yacht in 1953 and in 1960 won the first transatlantic solo yacht race. After his historic trip round the world, the first made with just one landfall, Chichester was given a hero's welcome in his native Plymouth and knighted with the sword of Sir Francis Drake. Despite...