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...article on "The Sea" [Dec. 1] makes reference to Julian Harvey's yacht striking the submerged wreck of the U.S.S. Texas in Chesapeake Bay. The U.S.S. Texas left Newport News, Va., in July 1946 to be towed to Texas. Can you enlighten me as to how the Texas got back to Chesapeake...
...Whose body was found last week aboard the family yacht Angelita, along with $4,562,837 in U.S. currency and Dominican pesos. Airfreighted to Paris, the body was taken for burial to Pére-Lachaise Cemetery, resting place of Abélard and Héloïse, Chopin and Balzac...
...wreck of the Torbatross. Last week David P. Harrison, one of Harvey's passengers on that trip, reported: "I remember we sailed around the wreck twice. Harvey said he was trying to read the markings on the buoy." Said Jack Stone, former commodore of the Capital Yacht Club, home berth of the Torbatross: "Everybody who has sailed those waters knows about the Texas and just stays away from her. The wreck is way off course. You have to work at it to find her." Yet a federal court awarded Harvey $14,258 damages for the loss of Torbatross...
...their fief, and blustered home to stop him. At that point, Ramfis gave up. After all, he had a reported $500 million stashed away in solid currencies in overseas banks. So he resigned as armed forces chief of staff and embarked with a consoling German blonde on the family yacht Angelita, bound first for the nearby island of Guadeloupe, then for the bright lights of Paris. That left a vacuum, which the uncles sought to fill. They tried to line up diehard Trujillo generals for a coup, and according to opposition reports were prepared to murder upwards...
...jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel refrigerators, hobnobbed with dictators, Prime Ministers and Presidents throughout the Western world till the outbreak of World War II, when he fled by yacht to Mexico, where he spent many of his remaining years supervising massive industrial and real estate developments in Latin America, Canada and the Bahamas...