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...says, "you don't have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually accompanied by a basic traveling staff of four, and they get about quite a bit, aided by their helicopter, their transatlantic jet and their 704-ton yacht with its crew of twelve. They follow the big and little seasons on such a clockwork schedule that they often don't even have to wire ahead. "When it's time for me to be in Paris, for instance," says Gloria, "the people there know when to expect...
...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...