Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Green and Jadine Childs meet in unusual circumstances. After stowing away on a yacht that docks at a small island in the Caribbean, Son hides in the house of Valerian Street, a retired candy manufacturer from Philadelphia. Street's wife Margaret, a faded Maine beauty queen, stumbles on the intruder in her closet. Her screams alarm the household. Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney...
...about everybody. He would lower federal support for museums, delay some space-exploration projects, reduce postal subsidies possibly enough to force cancellation of Saturday mail deliveries. He would give states and cities far more authority to decide how to use money sent from Washington for education and health purposes. Yacht owners would have to pay more to use waterways; air travelers higher ticket prices to make up for reduced airport subsidies. Here is a sample of what the President proposes to cut, who will be affected...
...from a film festival in the Philippines to Rome, where Shields starred in Valentino's spring-summer showing. Along the way were elegant dinners of suckling pig and mango pudding with President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila, a cruise with Mrs. Imelda Marcos on the presidential yacht, and a celebrity-studded evening at Valentino's Rome apartment. Smilgis, a former reporter at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and writer at PEOPLE, has interviewed hundreds of celebrities from John Travolta to Sophia Loren, but she puts Shields among her most challenging assignments. Says Smilgis: "It is very difficult to interview...
...complaint is valid up to a point, Americans now have far more intimate medical knowledge of their leaders than have citizens of other countries, or than Americans had in the past. When Grover Cleveland was secretly operated on for cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy spoke to intimates...
...need is guidance, security, good friends, and a good healthy dose of self-confidence." She meets the owner of the strong, soothing voice, a poker-faced Army recruiter, and believes him when he tells her that joining the Army means living in a Monterey condominium and sailing a yacht. He also assures her that the Army is no longer sexist: "This is the Army of the eighties. Any jobs that men hold can be jobs for the ladies, too. Even trained killers, stuff like that...