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...Bermuda Triangle, Berlitz...
...Gods?, which contends that the earth was visited by superintelligent extraterrestrial beings in prehistoric times, to The Secret Life of Plants, which argues that plants think, are capable of extrasensory perception, and even possess souls. Now another such literary endeavor has made its way onto the bestseller lists: The Bermuda Triangle (Doubleday; $7.95) by Charles Berlitz, grandson of the language-school founder. Like its predecessors, Triangle takes off from established facts, then proceeds to lace its theses with a hodgepodge of half-truths, unsubstantiated reports and unsubstantial science...
...area celebrated by Berlitz is the heavily traveled stretch of sea extending roughly from Bermuda in the north to Miami and beyond Puerto Rico on the south. It has been known variously as the Triangle of Death, the Devil's Triangle and the Hoodoo Sea. Berlitz reports that some 100 ships and planes carrying a total of more than 1,000 persons have mysteriously disappeared without a trace while traversing the triangle, most of them since 1945. Those statistics may well be the most indisputable facts in the book...
...almost all hooey. Columbus never reported seeing white water in the area. None of the early navigators made any complaints about it. The whole Spanish Main went through it." Says University of Miami Oceanographer Claes Rooth: "If there ever was a pseudo topic, it's the Bermuda triangle." Rooth attributes many of the disappearances to violent weather occurring suddenly over the warm water in the triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current...
...perceived the System as basically stable. Today the wealthy are preparing for revolution or Communism or whatever, and want to use the cash while it will still buy something. The more they speak poor, the more they are spending rich." The scion, who has homes in Manhattan and Bermuda, is shopping for a new yacht...