Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of Cap d'Agde, one of seven resort centers being developed along the "new Riviera" between Marseille and the Spanish border. The Fountainebleau of the bare set is Port Ambonne, a year-old, $4,000,000 complex on the Cap d'Agde, which has its own yacht basin and supermarket for nudists. Families have paid up to $26,000 for two-or three-room condominiums in an amphitheater-shaped apartment tower that curves around a nude-swimming pool. So far this year, some 25,000 nudists, about half of them foreigners, have visited the complex...
...near the base of my spine. The tumor spread to involve my spine and later other bones. With the help of appropriate treatment I have been fighting this trouble, and on the whole it has been a successful fight-because it did not prevent me from building a new yacht and improving the singlehanded-long-distance world speed record which I had held since...
WAVING a scrap of paper over his head, British Home Secretary Robert Carr rose to speak in the House of Commons. "Message from the Queen, signed by her Majesty's own hand!" he shouted. The paper, which Carr had brought by boat and plane from the royal yacht Britannia, on which Queen Elizabeth II had been cruising off the west coast of Scotland, was a declaration of a national state of emergency. It was the fourth such declaration that Britain's Tory government has had to seek since coming to power two years ago. The cause this time...
...months following his discharge from the hospital, Harris looked morbidly toward death. He sold his yacht, visited gun shops to look over the stock, went to the city morgue to view the bodies of suicides. Then a friend requested that he visit an acquaintance hospitalized with lung cancer, and the visit changed his attitude. "He was as afraid as I was," said Harris after talking with the man. "He seemed very appreciative when I left...
...company's annual general meeting last year, he turned up wearing a face-mask; there are few photographs of him. Hyams lives on a Hughesian scale as well. He spent $1,700,000 to acquire a Wiltshire manor. He paid nearly $700,000 for an 878-ton yacht that carries a crew of 30, and has put more than $1,000,000 worth of improvements into it, including $48,000 worth of teleprinter equipment to keep him in communication with the world's financial centers. A dapper figure with a neatly trimmed beard, Hyams owns a fleet...