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Shoppers not fortunate enough to have connections often have to resort to baser methods, such as those employed by musician Harler. She boasts that on a recent Basement voyage, she had a leotard among the stockings. The next day, when the price had fallen 25 percent, she came back...
...Hick from French Lick" is an easy description of Bird and his hometown, but unfair on a couple of counts. If the spa waters have calmed since the days when Franklin Roosevelt and Al Capone journeyed to southern Indiana for a sulfurous cure, French Lick continues to be a resort community of considerable grace. The leading citizen is identified on a circular standard, larger than a Gulf sign, marking LARRY BIRD BLVD. Every street's a boulevard in old French Lick. The location of the Bird residence is given away by a full blacktopped court, complete with two glass backboards...
...code, a booming charter industry has sprung up to make such dreams come true. The tax shelters enable landlubber investors to buy yachts and lease them to vacationers for as little as $600 per person per week, or about the cost of a first-class beach resort. Says Simon Scott, marketing manager of The Moorings, a charter company that operates 110 yachts in the Caribbean islands of Tortola and St. Lucia: "Yachting is no longer the exclusive sport of the rich...
...vacationers, bareboating can satisfy wanderlust while supplying most of the comforts of a top beach resort. Many of the yachts come equipped with such amenities as freezers, stereos and video recorders, and are custom-designed to make sailing relatively easy. With a push of a button, the commodore can weigh anchor and head for open water. Says Normand Bremner, 51, a Dallas anesthesiologist who was cruising the Grenadines last week: "Bareboat sailing is like a luxurious type of camping. You fend for yourself, do what you want, and you don't have to worry about putting up your tent...
...annual pilgrimage of sun-starved New England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that surprising that placing 10 less-than-mild-mannered 17 year-old girls in this resort haven with minimal supervision during Spring recess would satisfy an Irwin Allen formula for disaster...