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...Good Friday this year, Rex Humbard added to his empire. For about $3,000,000, a knockdown price for a property worth five times as much, he bought the almost new, fully equipped Mackinac College, previously run by Moral Re-Armament, on Michigan's Mackinac Island. A high school graduate himself, Humbard has launched a study to see if he can reopen the college, and he already has 452 requests for applications if he does. Even some of Humbard's loyal staffers are concerned about his ability to make this latest project pay. But Rex Humbard himself, obviously...
...spent most of last summer on a 55-foot boat in the Great Lakes, competing in such off-shore races as the Port Huron to Mackinac and the Chicago to Mackinac...
...with Sing-Out is Tom Galleway. He says he attended Harvard, but he is not listed in the Alumni Director. He is the admissions director at Mackinac College, a $5 million layout on Mackinac Island in Michigan. Galleway told an audience of Harvard freshmen at Grays Common Room Sunday night that he felt very guilty about the "stealing" he had done at Harvard. He had, he said, sneaked books out of Lamont. And worse, he had taken girls out for dinner at Winthrop House and paid with coupons on his term bill while at the same time receiving an allowance...
...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
Today's blue-water skippers are a bit more specific than John Masefield. Their pragmatic doggerel runs: "Give me a Cal-40 and some racing luck, and I'll win Bermuda, Transpac and Mackinac." In less than three years of ocean competition, the 40-ft. fiber-glass sloops from California have become the tallest boats in U.S. racing, sailing off with virtually every major trophy...