Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With every Mediterranean ripple, jumpy wire service editors cabled their Athens correspondents to find out where Jackie Kennedy and the Onassis yacht Christina were. No one could say. Only the White House was able to keep tabs with a special microwave hookup. Culture-conscious Jackie was charting her own Odyssey, over to Lesbos for a look at the island where the poet Sappho was supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Then on to Crete for a session with Sister Lee Radziwill, clambering around labyrinthian Minoan ruins. The last stop was at Delphi, where, intent on the guide...
...Harvard Yacht Club finished second in a field of seven racing teams on Saturday, as M.I.T. stole the Oberg Trophy from the Crimson in the Greater Boston Sailing Championships on the Charies River...
Just to keep things from getting dull, Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis sailed his 325-ft. pleasure palace, the Christina, to Jackie's whitewashed villa and put the yacht at her disposal. Jackie had no trouble finding uses for it. She threw a dinner party and a midnight shipboard dance for eleven guests, among them the Radziwills, Owner Onassis and Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was in Greece to discuss trade matters with local officials. While the guests slept that night, the Christina, loaded with fresh peaches, black figs and pomegranates, and decorated from stem...
Harvard men will comprise more than half the crew of 12 bringing Endeavour to this country. Besides Millar and five other members of the Harvard Yacht Club, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40, the University's Environmental Health and Safety Officer, will aid in handling the vessel...
Norris Hoyt, the oldest non-Harvard member of the Yacht Club, will be the skipper. He has already been commissioned by Life magazine to do an article on the voyage, which will appear in an issue at the end of July or the beginning of August...