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Down at Newport Beach, Wayne also makes it livable for the most number of people. Out in Newport Bay bobs his boat, Wild Goose II. Lesser men would have a yacht; Wayne's craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams...
...friends." As it is, the suspicion is bound to linger that the only reason the two men did not call the police is that they were afraid that Kennedy was in no shape to undergo breath or other tests for alcohol. Thus, they might have chosen to risk the lesser charge of leaving the scene of an accident over the graver charges that might have arisen from drunken driving. It is, of course, possible that the two men were simply being inept. Whatever the explanation, that point remains one of the weakest in Kennedy's story...
...lesser men, courage has often been a means to lesser ends. "Who gets wealth that puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble...
...Bavarians, who argue that it is time to restrict the search for war criminals to major offenders, demanded a so-called "differentiated approach." It would treat the criminals who gave the orders for genocide and massacres far more severely than those who carried them out or were involved in lesser crimes. Fearing that he would be outflanked by Strauss, his main rival, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger went along with the Bavarians. So did the rest of the party. Faced with the new position of their senior partners in the coalition, the Socialists had no practical alternative except to agree...
...Long Trains. In the project, the two principal Australian companies -Broken Hill Proprietary Co. and Colonial Sugar Refining Co.-have an impressive line-up of international partners. American Metal Climax has a 25% interest; Japan's Mitsui and C. Itoh and Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port Hedland...