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...Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north of Boston in Wakefield, Mass. Most spectacular feature: a 19th century New England fishing village, from which the kiddies can slosh off in whale boats to stalk a 7O-ft. replica of Moby-Dick...
...Bahamas are a personal haven for the rich as well as a corporate haven for foreign companies. Clint Murchison Jr. soaks up the sun on a private island hideaway at Spanish Cay (rhymes with fee). Standard Oil Heiress Marion Carstairs and her half brother Francis Francis bought adjoining Whale Cay and Bird Cay. Longtime Alcoa Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis built expensive Rock Sound Club, a public hotel, on Eleuthera. While he was at it, Davis put up the truly private Cotton Bay Golf Club (among the members: Laurance Rockefeller, General Nathan Twining), complete with Robert Trent Jones-designed...
When the Skipjack is maneuvering under the surface like a sportive whale, she must be handled more like an airplane than a ship. Her pilot, copilot and engineer are strapped tight in airplane-type seats, steering in three dimensions with an aircraftlike "stick." And as Skipjack dives and banks and turns in the dark depths, propelled by her tireless nuclear engine, the rest of the 83-man crew hang on for dear life. Only when the Skipjack comes to the surface does she tend to wallow clumsily like a surfaced whale...
Many of these are unconscious--for example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
...Guaranty is ninth, with deposits of $2.5 billion. The merger, said Morgan Board Chairman Henry Clay Alexander, 56, will enable both banks "to serve our clients' increasing needs and our country's growth even better." The merger was characterized in Wall Street as "Jonah swallowing the whale," since Alexander will be chairman and chief executive officer of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co of New York; Guaranty President Dale E. Sharp, 55, becomes president...