Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haldeman, who lives quietly in Los Angeles, and has been seen lunching at Orange County's plush Balboa Yacht Club, also has huge legal bills. After the court's action last week, he called a press conference on his front lawn and said: "For the past three weeks I have been watching the Nixon-Frost interviews. I've avoided comment because I had the hope they would clear up many of the questions that remained. Unfortunately, they did not. I feel now that I have to challenge President Nixon's explanation of the cover...
...salary from a travel business in 1968 and $30,000 from his share of a legitimate finance company, enabling him to have an $80,000 house, two Lincoln Continentals for himself and a Ford for his wife, horses for his children and the use of a $112,000 yacht owned by his firm...
...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...
...varsity's sixth-place showing in the Friis Trophy meet up on Mystic Lake. Host team Tufts ran away with the event, outdistancing second-place University of Washington and the rest of the 17-team field in what looked more like an OpSail maneuver than a collegiate yacht race...
...Robert and Kate actually had made love. Before that point in the story, in fact, the issue was by no means crucial. The plot seemed to be mostly about the vague yearnings of summer love and the not-so-vague yearnings for a good clean fight down at the Yacht Club--the things of which a rich California boy's summer before college are made...