Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist front. And in a lighter moment, Actor Sterling Hayden, in full beard, testified that leaving the Communist Party is easy (he himself left in 1946 after six months) and the discipline only as tough as one makes it: "I was the only person I know to buy a yacht and join the party in the same week...
...Government commissaries, bowling and Hollywood movies at the service centers. Zonians go in for such back-home activities as the V.F.W., Lions Club and Boy Scouts. They have their own schools (including a junior college), country clubs and well-kept golf courses; 1,600 boats are registered at the yacht basin, and late-model cars are the rule, not the exception...
Bucky's found a sixpence, and he's gone to buy a yacht...
...Even a Yacht. Some of Defferre's fellow Socialists began to squirm as well. Uneasiest of all was Party Secretary Guy Mollet, who has long been jealous of Defferre's growing power in the party and his even wider appeal to the nation. When the governing board of the Socialist Party met last week at its Paris headquarters just off Place Pigalle, Mollet fought hard to stop the Socialists from naming anyone as a presidential candidate-at least at this moment. But of the 43 Socialists present at last week's meeting, fully 35 backed Defferre...
...Gaulle's major rival is nearly as unusual as le grand Charles himself. In a Roman Catholic country, Defferre is a Protestant. He is a co-owner of a prosperous newspaper, Le Provencal, and though a convinced Socialist, possesses one of those conspicuous bourgeois appurtenances, a yacht. An antiCommunist, Defferre nevertheless gets Communist support at elections...