Word: yachting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kissinger demurred. Bracing Ford suddenly with a proposal that he had so often rejected might just irritate him. It would be better, Kissinger suggested, for him to raise the matter later that night during a relaxed visit that both had planned on a yacht docked on the Detroit River near the Joe Louis Arena. Casey agreed that Kissinger should handle...
...floor higher, Ford told Barrett and John Marsh, a former aide in the Ford White House, about his meeting with Reagan. He felt flattered, honored-and pressured. He and Betty joined two dozen other friends on the yacht Global Star, owned by John McGoff, a Michigan newspaper publisher. Among the guests was Alan Greenspan, a Ford friend and his chief economic adviser in the White House...
...also about midnight when the Ford party, including Greenspan, left the yacht and went back to the Ford suite. Although Ford had a commitment to appear early Wednesday on the Today show, he sat patiently through nearly two hours of informal chats about joining the ticket. The group, including Political Aides Barrett and Marsh, was joined by Kissinger, his wife Nancy and son David, 18. Ford led Kissinger into another room, where the two talked privately for 45 minutes...
...feted at a reception in Grosse Pointe Shores thrown by Ralph Wilson, owner of the N.F.L. Buffalo Bills. The Minnesota delegation was treated to a luncheon and fashion show at a suburban branch of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and South Dakota delegates enjoyed a cookout at the Detroit Yacht Club. Under a huge tent at Stroh's Brewery, hundreds of visitors quaffed free bottles of Detroit's suds while listening to a five-piece country-and-western band that appeared to know a song for every state...
Tito reveled in the applause, just as he relished a number of decidedly unproletarian luxuries. He dressed in stylishly tailored suits, as well as bemedaled uniforms that Churchill once called Tito's "gold-lace straitjacket." He traveled in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, a lavish yacht and a special train; among his other perks of office were half a dozen residences, several hunting lodges and a villa on the Adriatic isle of Brioni. He savored good food and drink and had an appreciative eye for pretty women. In 1977 Tito and his third wife Jovanka, 55, had a falling...