Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sales, and all impenetrable to a ravenous press which had to settle for tidbits like "the sounds of Frank Sinatra music and the clinking of glasses could be heard coming from inside the compound." (Associated Press). The bittersweet Baileys then sailed off for a honeymoon cruise on the Vardinoyiannis yacht (unconfirmed) and were never heard from again...
...also allows impatient publishers to rush out red-hot, news-inspired books ahead of the competition. Last week Pocket Books trumpeted the release of a POD edition of Knockdown by Martin Dugard. The book, an account of the 1998 Sydney-to-Hobart yacht-race disaster that claimed six lives, won't be finished in hard cover until September. But the POD copies will be competitive with rivals...
MARRIED. RUPERT MURDOCH, 68, billionaire media magnate, to former employee WENDI DENG, 32; aboard his yacht in New York Harbor. It is Murdoch's third marriage...
...Palmer McArthur, 74, and his wife Mary, 73, it was the trip of a lifetime. At the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, they had the chance in June to be with their four children, their spouses and 14 grandchildren. It posed no problem that June is off-season in the Caribbean. The weather there is consistent throughout the year, with temperatures averaging 80[degrees] F to 90[degrees] F, and the Bitter End staff was able to give the McArthurs lots of personal attention, including organizing activities for all three generations. Better yet, traveling...
...epics, the story of the obscure Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth began with a voyage. In 1956, along with Fidel Castro and a handful of others, he had crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their contingent, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery...