Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in the comics. Encapsulated in his crime-busting space ship, Dick Tracy was just about to let his enemy Intro have it with a laser ray gun. "This is not a no-win game like the sadists play," Tracy shouted at Intro, below him aboard an old-fashioned yacht. "We're out to vaporize you." The strip, carried in 800 newspapers, then concluded with a panel showing a spindly hand, labeled "under world," being bashed by a gold bar. Said the caption: "Violence is golden, when it's used to put down evil...
...Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery. It is the difference between maintaining a yacht and day-chartering a party boat...
More sights on the riverside were noted. Some sights in the river were also pointed out. "There is a yacht flying the flag of the Newton Yacht Club to which I belong. It's a 30 footer and sleeps four...
...while enrolled at the University of Virginia, Randell persuaded himself to follow his own prescription while he was working as a marketing manager for ITT in Chicago. The idea jelled during a debutante party in Newport. As he sailed up to the dock in his college roommate's yacht, he recalls, "I decided I was getting behind." In his spare time, he wrote a guide to collegiate summer jobs, then at a cost of $150 printed up posters advertising "high-paying, fun-filled positions" and distributed them on four Wisconsin campuses. So many orders poured in the first week...
...Gayle simply packed the tiny, heavily tranquilized beasts in a carryall and lugged them past customs at London Airport. Some such illegal dodge was necessary to get around England's strict six-month waiting period for animal immigrants, which recently forced Richard and Liz Burton to charter a yacht to house their animals during a visit. The less expensive tote bag was Gayle's own idea. So was her final coup-getting a British European Airways steward to carry the bag for her as she left London for Majorca...