Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each morning at six and begins the day by doing 50 pushups and taking a mile-long run through Miami's fashionable Coconut Grove with his three German shepherds. He relaxes by sailing one of his five floating rigs, from a sunfish to a 116-ft., $950,000 yacht. At the office, he is known as a boss who gives full reign on day-to-day matters to his lieutenants but nonetheless makes his opinions known in streams of one-line memos. Ryder's formula for creating the kind of empire that has made him personally worth...
...Army probed deeper into the sergeants' cabal, they eventually came up against Crum and his "friends." Last June, the Army placed Cole on involuntary retirement after demoting him to colonel and stripping him of medals. Crum has dropped from sight-presumably to sail his yacht in the South Pacific while charting his next move...
McHale is somewhat more indulgent, when lampooning the fear and prosperous conventionality of middle age. Even Arthur, the only wholly human member of his family, has "two Cadillacs, two homes and safe money in Swiss banks." His friend, the mobster Serafina, has a yacht as well. Serafina is a fine parody of the Godfather. Trailed ceaselessly by the feds, he cheerfully gives their car a push when the batteries go dead. When he reads of the violence in Chicago at the Democratic Convention, he personally guards Philadelphia's Liberty Bell on the theory that no judge is going...
Great Bodies. In spite of a record cold spell, Manhattan stores and boutiques can barely match supply to demand. Designers like Halston, Adolfo, Sant Angelo and Betsey Johnson are grinding them out for customers from Jackie Onassis, who stocked up on Halston's shorties for yacht wear, to career girls like Celanese Fabric Coordinator Jacquie Nelson, whose bosses last week granted her permission to wear her knit shorts to work. Bloomingdale's department store ran a hot-pants advertisement this month, only to discover that the resulting zoom in sales was partly due to a cross-town rush...
Since his promotion to head Hughes' Nevada holdings. Maheu had become rich. Besides the $500,000 a year that he was paid by Hughes, he had an unlimited expense account and freely used company Cadillacs, helicopters and an airplane. He kept a $500,000 yacht on the Pacific, a French Regency home in Las Vegas estimated to be worth the same amount, and a $50,000 lodge at nearby Mount Charleston...