Word: zara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the world ran pictures of the hardy, silver-haired Prime Minister wearing a rubber wet suit and carrying a spear gun. Holt fished from the rocks, body-surfed in the great Pacific waves that pound southern Australia's Mornington Peninsula, and spent hours with his wife, Zara, exploring rock pools, collecting shells and spearing fish. His greatest delight was snorkeling. "From the moment I put my head under the water," he said, "I was caught. And I've been captured ever since." Last week Harold Holt, 59, was captured for good by the sea that he loved...
...never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried law student he began visiting Cheviot with Zara and her family. And, as a strong swimmer, he had often plunged into rougher waters...
...Holt's car and drove two miles to a nearby army barracks, where he telephoned for help. Helicopters, light planes, boats and launches soon spiderwebbed the area in the greatest search in Australia's history. Skindivers plunged deep below the surface. Flying in from Canberra, Zara Holt walked for hours along the beach, keeping her own lonely vigil and suggesting a few places where searchers might look for the body. "Try the Pope's Eye and the Chinaman's Hat," she suggested. "They are two bad pockets of rocks right in the middle of the current...
...most popular nightclubs are Stroyville; where it's jazz; Blinstrub's, featuring big-name popular entertainers; Club Zara, for belly dancers; and the Polynesian Village, where the prices are high and the drinks exotic...
...most popular nightclubs are Storyville; where it's jazz; Blinstrub's, featuring big-name popular entertainers; Club Zara, for belly dancers; and the Polynesian Village, where the prices are high and the drinks exotic...