Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million goggling Aussies whooped it up on the shore as the royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...
...trim little woman of 52, in a neat linen dress and high-heeled shoes, clip-clopped across a marble floor in Havana's Comodoro Yacht Club last week and faced a combined audience of Cuban doctors and members of the cruising Pan American Medical Association.- Dr. Jose...
...families picnicked on the flower beds; kids shied pop bottle caps at shimmering chandeliers inside the palace; mothers nursed their babies on satin-covered furniture in the drawing rooms. Still racked with fever, the President stood by shaking hand after hand until aides whisked him off to the presidential yacht in Manila Harbor for a breath of air. Police estimated that 50,000 people had come to Malacanan Palace during the two days. Said one newsman: "The Communist leader Taruc used to brag that if the people would follow him, he would bring them to Malacanan. It looks as though...
...presidential yacht two days after the inauguration, he wiped out the Philippines Marine Corps with one casual remark to Corps Commander Commodore Jose Francisco. "Commodore," he said, "I'm going to convert your marines into an engineer battalion. I want them to learn how to install irrigation pumps and pipes and go out and help people in the barrios. Let's start with San Luis, that's Taruc's home town. Let's go in there and make that a real model village...
...unchallenged boss, Joseph Pulitzer II, 68, who, like his late father, has long suffered from failing eyesight; he keeps a battery of secretaries reading the paper to him line-by-line every day (including ads). Whether in his office, at his estate in Bar Harbor, Me., or aboard his yacht Victoria, "J.P." deluges his staff with distinctive yellow-paper memos, has even edited his own obituary" for the paper's files, to say: "[Joseph Pulitzer II's] heart was more at home in the editorial sanctum than in the countinghouse...