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...Korean war, the emerging and contentious continent of Africa, and of late, the France of De Gaulle and Algeria. Prendergast, who got to know Don Juan first in Portugal two years ago, had this time to find him first. The Pretender was somewhere in the Mediterranean aboard the yacht Saltillo. returning from the Athens wedding of his son Prince Juan Carlos to Princess Sophie of Greece. On a tip, Prendergast flew to the Spanish island of Majorca...
After the last toasts were gulped and the last paso dobles played in Athens, Prince Juan Carlos of Spain and his new wife, the former Princess Sophie of Greece, went aboard the yacht Eros, put at their service by Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, and sailed away on a long honeymoon. But when the honeymoon is over, what will the prince do? More than any event in years, the royal wedding revived speculation about the future of the Spanish monarchy - and about the man who will succeed Francisco Franco...
...fault; he has passed up many opportunities to heal old wounds. He even irked Franco over Juan Carlos' engagement. Instead of consulting the touchy dictator in advance, he merely telephoned the Caudillo a few hours before the public announcement. Franco took the call aboard his yacht Azor, laid down the receiver after hearing the news, paced the deck, then returned to bicker icily over details, finally hung up without offering a word of congratulation...
Keel v. Hull. Last week, at Marblehead, Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal...
...Friendship Youth House ("I never thought a school would be named for me"), held gracious receptions and swung through nine concerts. By week's end, his voice was scratchy and tired, and he set off for a seven-day cruise to the Isle of Rhodes on a chartered yacht before his next round of appearances in Greece and Italy...