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Black, now United Brands' chairman and president, has begun replacing the company's aging banana boats with modern container vessels. He has settled several antitrust suits, which were draining the firm of $ 1,000,000 a year in legal fees, by selling its Guatemalan banana division to Del Monte. In Central America, United Fruit had long been improving company-paid education, housing and medical care for plantation hands; Black has redoubled those efforts...
Shortly after excavators began blasting into the ground to prepare the way for construction of a new 28-story bank building in downtown Nashville two years ago, a sharp-eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
...independence. Yet he must not appear to be talking with a forked tongue-and the Vice President, as everyone knows, likes to talk. "We're in the most sensitive, most sacrosanct area of Government affairs," says an Agnew intimate. "The Vice President has to avoid any suggestion of banana-republic politics, any suggestion that he's trying to push...
...wearing a striped blazer decorated with a yellow rose, she a big-shouldered coat, sequined Chiquita Banana shoes and a green straw hat. After presenting the $350,000 they had raised for earthquake relief for Nicaragua to the Pan American Development Foundation in Washington, Rolling Stone Mick Jogger and his look-alike Nicaraguan wife Bianco decided to try the exclusive Sans Souci restaurant. Paul DeLisle, the maître d'hôtel, was not impressed. "No reservation; no tie," he said, turning them away...
...remaining flotsom was awarded many different prizes for behavior and looks. The Most Ostentatious award went to Eliot House's The Henry Elkins, designed as an oar-powered Mississippi steam boat. The Most Obscene and Most Polluted Crew awards went to the boat from Adams with a large banana on the sail and a bellicose crew that threw the peels at the other boats...