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...with the Dolphins and his newspaper column. To make ends meet he did some free-lance radio work and later moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was a p.r. man for the local racetrack and did play-by-play for the old World Football League's Shreveport Steamer...
...shut down. Last July, in a raid on a Leto Lopez front business in Queens, agents found a list of Calenos who had rented apartments around Manhattan. By the time agents reached the addresses, everyone was gone, leaving behind cocaine, ledgers, more than $1.5 million in cash, and two steamer trunks full of arms. "Whenever we get close to these people," says U.S. District Attorney Andrew Maloney, "they're on a plane back to Colombia, and we have to start all over again...
...introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State, McGuane edited a literary journal and shunned the budding hippie drug culture with such conviction that his peers dubbed him the "White Knight...
...first day, the Witches carried theirboxes and bags, a steamer trunk, a refrigerator,three stereos and a computer up five flights ofstairs and subsequently collapsed on the barepreviously stained mattresses of their new room.On the second day the Witches swept the floor andwashed the woodwork and windows. On the third day,the Witches registered for classes and orderedyard upon yard of heavy plastic sheeting. On thefourth day, sheeting and twelve bags of premiumsoil was delivered to the Witches by sweating,cursing delivery people whom they tipped heavily.On the fifth day, the Witches moved all of thefurniture out of the living...
...salvage operation is financed by a group of Ohio investors who put up $7 million. Aboard the recovery ship Arctic Discover is a team of scientists studying the ecosystem around the sunken steamer. But Thompson concedes that new knowledge is merely a fringe benefit. Says he: "Without the gold, we would not be here...