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...hulls for hire has put ship owners and builders into their most severe slump since the Great Depression. The battle for business has severely corroded cargo-hauling rates and the values of ships. It costs only about $7 today to move a ton of grain from New Orleans to Amsterdam, in contrast to $17 in 1981. Says Fernand Suykens, director general of the port of Antwerp: "World shipping is very sick, and nobody knows when it's going to get any better...
They perform on street corners in Amsterdam, subways in the south of France, Puerto Rican nightclubs, restaurants in Bermuda, and Harvard's Sanders Theater. With solo-quality voices, they sing swing tunes, jazz, blues Motown, spirituals...
...resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard ('69); both assistant to the president and assistant chancellor for physical planning at the University of Massachusetts; graphic artist represented by galleries in New York City and Amsterdam; architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the design prize for the graduating class...
...research and development of the DeLorean, a sleek, stainless-steel sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. The indictment charges that beginning in 1978 DeLorean funneled much of that money into a mysterious Panamanian company called GPD Services, which in turn deposited the funds at the Pierson Bank in Amsterdam. Eventually, $8.9 million went from that bank into DeLorean's personal account at New York's Citibank. Of that amount, the indictment says, DeLorean used $7.5 million to buy Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes. He allegedly used the remaining $1.4 million for personal expenses...
...none combined oddities as well as Macon Leary. His occupation, for example, is matchless. Would you believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...