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...nearby ships, the Bahama Star and the Finnpulp, rushed to the burning vessel and heaved close to. Both launched lifeboats for the passengers, yanked many out of the water after they jumped from the burning deck. Coast Guard helicopters dropped flares to help the rescue. A column of smoke from the stricken vessel rose 4,000 ft.; flames were visible 20 miles away...
...Florida's Jimmy Wynne, 35: the Gateway Marathon, a 180-mile speedboat race from West Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island and back. Driving his latest creation, Maritime, a 32-ft. aluminum hull powered by two supercharged 400-h.p. Daytona engines, Miami Designer Wynne ripped through the churning Gulf Stream at speeds up to 60 m.p.h., crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 41 min. 10 sec. to beat Don Aronow's G08-a deep-V Donzi whose fiberglass hull Wynne also helped design...
Cutting his engines back to a cozy 5,200 r.p.m., Aronow sashayed over the glassy Bahama flats at a steady 55 knots, crossed the finish line in 3 hrs. 19 min. 36 sec.-slicing 45 sec. off the race record. "I could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
...million worth of tea leaves. "The day I live for," says Huntington Hartford, 53, the A. & P. heir, "is the day somebody mentions my name and doesn't immediately add A. & P. heir." One plot he brewed to this end was to buy 700 acres of a Bahama isle named Paradise for $14 million and turn it into a play ground hardly anyone could afford. He built a 52-room hotel (rates: up to $135 a day), nightclub, golf course (pro: Gary Player), and tennis courts (pro: Pancho Gonzales), but, says his broker, "You just...
...days the five Cubans paddled north across the sea on a raft fashioned from truck-tire inner tubes, rope and bamboo poles. By the time a passing Florida yachtsman spotted them 35 miles off Grand Bahama island last week and took them aboard, the raft had disintegrated and the refugees were clinging to the inner tubes, half in, half out of the water. What sort of land is it that drives men to take such risks to escape? Last month Fidel Castro invited 30 U.S. newsmen to Cuba to witness the July 26 celebrations marking the eleventh anniversary...