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...spasm of grief. His wife, Mary Dene, 34, a former TWA airline hostess and a bride of four months, had died just five days earlier, in the sinking of the chartered, 60-ft. ketch Bluebelle, which her husband skippered. Julian Harvey had been plucked from the sea in the yacht's dinghy with the body of René Duperrault, 7, another passenger...
...wife and her mother. Twice in peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico, and once more Harvey escaped with his life. The sinking of the Bluebelle, insisted friends, was all that Harvey could stand...
Ramfis went along with the arrangement, and by his standards, evidently thought that he had lived up to his part. His Uncle Arismendi sailed off across the Caribbean in the frigate Presidente Trujillo. His Uncle Hector cruised the same sea in the family yacht Angelita. He surrendered eight sugar mills. Not only was the Castroite Popular Dominican Movement proscribed, but the police even began to look for its leader, Máximo López Molina. Last week, as time drew near for the U.S. quid pro quo at an OAS meeting in Washington, López Molina was "found...
...fill Furtwangler's shoes. But many recalled and resented the rivalry for musical preferment between Von Karajan and Furtwangler that had raged for years, and they further resented Von Karajan's playboy reputation as a driver of sports cars and a skipper of his own 50-ton yacht...
Returning to Newport last week, the Kennedys went all out in their vacationing. There were daily luncheon cruises aboard the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. The Honey Fitz anchored in quiet coves while a Secret Service powerboat hove alongside to speed Jackie through aquatic variations on a single water ski. Once ex-Navy Lieutenant John Kennedy spied the Navy frigate, Willis A. Lee, steaming past, signaled it to stop so the Honey Fitz could come up for a close presidential look...