Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parisians pack their race horses and head for a 1,000-year-old village on the Normandy coast, 120 miles away. In old Deauville (pop. 5,438) they unpack their purses at three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...
...Duke of Edinburgh, reported London's Evening Standard, has bloomed as an inventor. His brain child: a 58-ft. tablecloth containing "hundreds of yards of wire sandwiched between layers of felt and latex." When plugged in, the electrified tablecloth, spread over the royal board in the royal yacht Britannia, will provide power for electric candelabra placed anywhere upon...
...David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre's owner, Carleton Mitchell, a wealth-upholstered free-lance writer and photographer, had hardly minded. Said...
...sooner had the activities gotten under way when several of the orange machines--"shuttle buses" according to the Reunion Guide--began to rumble, signalling a departure for the nearby North Shore beaches, or, for the more passive members of '31, the Manchester Yacht Club, where boat trips explored the "scenic coast" of the North Shore...
...B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...