Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such interests have been damaged. The stock drop has affected the psychological climate ?and thus the spending plans?of all kinds of businesses. Moreover, as stockholders have felt the pinch, the decline has brought hard times to enterprises as varied as restaurants, nightclubs, gambling casinos, summer-rental brokerages, yacht builders, jewelers, liquor stores and fur shops...
...pushing and shoving, Miss James should have seen the two wire-service combatants when they accompanied President Nixon on a yacht ride in California last summer. Finding only one ship-to-shore phone available, they almost came to blows as they wrestled to make the first call. That sight might have made even Princess Anne smile...
Flag Gaffe. While Charles retained his princely cool, a personable, polished blend of animation and decorum, Anne was alternately aloof, bored, alert and quizzical, as befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied...
Adjusting to affluence, de Renzy drives a Porsche convertible and sails a 52-ft. yacht. He lives in a $150,000 hilltop estate in Marin County-with his secretary and one of his former actresses. Both are pregnant with his children, and he supports at least five earlier offspring. "I guess you could say," he says, "that I'm on a sex trip." So is a growing portion of the moviegoing public...
Lumumba Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...