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...storm, Jackie Kennedy's forlorn hopes for a week or two of secluded vacationing at Hyannisport with her husband were quickly washed overboard. For exactly two days the Democratic presidential nominee devoted him self entirely to the leisurely life - cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill...
...part of the people that such sudden opulence has been acquired through that President? The effect is the weakening of public faith in that President himself, and nobody can take him seriously when he preaches against graft and corruption.'' Even as Garcia gathered top Nacionalistas on his yacht to celebrate his victory, hard-working Finance Secretary Aytona was canceling an order for machinery because he discovered that a relative of his own worked for the importer and was starting to crack down on illegal tobacco imports. Said he, giving away perhaps more than he intended: "I have...
...long twilight of the lives, mostly spent commuting with fair weather between England and the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill journeyed to Venice, briefly explored its familiar old canals by motorboat before going aboard a somewhat larger craft, the rakish, 325-ft. yacht of Shipping Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis. Bound for a leisurely Mediterranean cruise, the yacht sailed down the Adriatic Sea. dropped anchor near a retreat of Yugoslavia's President Tito. Going ashore, Sir Winston rekindled his spirits by reliving some World War II battles with his erstwhile partisan ally...
...black Rolls-Royces drew up to a pier in Monaco, disgorged recently divorced Shipping Czar Aristotle Socrates Onassis and his great and dear friend, sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, legally separated from her husband. A scarlet speedboat skittered them out to Onassis' yacht Christina. On the eve of sailing for Eastern Mediterranean ports, "Ari" and Maria went ashore for dinner with Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. Next day Christina steamed off across the azure waters for Capri, and from there she was bound for Venice, where Maria would presumably debark to keep a recording date...
...nothing of giving up the wheel if he feels his touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...