Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belle and his blondined second wife took a terraced apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, bought a cabin cruiser, joined the Fluminense Club and the Yacht Club (membership fee: $2,000). Through a front man. Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
High Dives & Dancers. That afternoon, Ike and his host got away from the crowds, boarded President López Mateos white, 168-ft. yacht Sotavento, cruised for four hours in the glistening bay as they talked business with their aides (one U.S. staffer: Latin American...
...newsmen got no official help in keeping up with the duke. Though the prince is traveling by private jet plane, propeller transport and yacht, no British reporter-not even one who is accredited to Buckingham Palace-was allowed aboard. Following as best they might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your...
President Garcia himself seemed to be almost as wavering as his Tokyo officials. He first declared that the presidential yacht was necessary for "safety, prestige and speed'' in his island-hopping tours, and added that, anyway, the Lapu Lapu was not costing the nation scarce dollars, and could be used by his presidential successors as well as himself. As criticism mounted, Garcia designated the Lapu Lapu as "flagship" of the Philippine navy (making her. apparently, the only unarmed fleet flagship in the world). He promised that she would be available for "mercy missions" in case of typhoons, tidal...
...Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Randall as a department store clerk with hopes that his 40-ft. yacht, if he can ever get it out of the basement, will get him away from...