Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bahamas from Resorts International. Vesco's IIT fund also lent $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a company that was founded and is still partly owned by Costa Rican President Figueres. Meanwhile Fund of Funds put $60 million into Inter-american Capital, a shell company allegedly controlled by Vesco and formally headed by Alberto Inocente Alvarez, an adviser to Figueres...
...SHELLS Photographs by Andreas Feininger. Text by William K. Emerson. 295 pages. Viking. $27.50. This fine fat volume is neither a collector's guide nor a malacological text but, as Photographer Feininger puts it, "a shell-appreciation book." Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound. There is also profit in shell collecting. At a recent auction, something called a Golden Cowrie, often found in the Fijis, went for more than...
...Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into his wallet just before heading East on interstate 90 Champagne Chuck Yale 69 was going back to New England and this time be wasn't going to shell out any money to those obnoxious people from Cambridge...
...weather hurt the Crimson Varsity men's team on the Charles Saturday as the sailors wound up sixth out of 13 teams in the MIT Shell Trophy races...
...With the aid of high-powered public relations firms and lavish use of broadcasting, wealth often wins. One illustration is the defeat last June of a controversial proposition that would have restricted industry from polluting the air. Such firms as Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, Gulf Oil, Humble Oil & Refining, Shell Oil, Dow Chemical and Pacific Gas & Electric helped assemble a kitty of $1.4 million. This overwhelmed the $186,510 spent by a committee called the People for the Clean Environment...