Word: bimini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were bought. The subcommittee, which was authorized by the House three months ago to carry out its investigation, also heard Silvia Givens, 20, testify that she was hired by Powell last August as a clerk, but actually worked as a cookmaid at Powell's Bahamian retreat on South Bimini Island. Subpoenaed to appear this week is Powell's estranged wife, Yvette, who is on his payroll as a $20,578-a-year assistant, though she lives in Puerto Rico. Her checks had been going into Powell's personal account until last month, when she asked that they...
While the probers fumed, Powell continued enjoying the surroundings on Bimini, which he calls "Adam's Eden." There he has been lolling for a month with his $19,200-a-year "administrative assistant," Corrine Huff, who was Miss Ohio in the 1960 Miss U.S.A. contest. When he tires of his one-bedroom villa, Powell rests up by fishing for barracuda and wahoo from his 31-ft. yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week...
...told, it was not a very happy birthday for Powell, who turned 58 last week while vacationing with his House assistant, comely Corrine Huff, 25, at his Bimini retreat in the Bahamas. After nearly running down Lynn Pelham, a contract photographer for LIFE, with the old Washington taxicab he uses for buzzing around the island, Powell brandished a shotgun, snarled, "I'll kill you if you set foot on my property." With his telephoto lens, Pelham then snapped a picture of Powell stalking angrily into his house...
...anything from a souped-up outboard to a PT boat-until your ribs rattle and your face is white with salt. It is madness, of course. But as Ohio Millionaire Merrick Lewis, 41, explained on the eve of last week's Sam Griffith Memorial Race from Miami to Bimini and back: "Once in a while, you have to force yourself into doing something that petrifies you. If you don't, pretty soon you turn into a chunk of Jell...
Only four boats reached Bimini, and only two attempted the return trip. Aboard Thunderbird, bearded Jim Wynne was having his problems-his engines cut out three times when waves tossed the boat clear out of water. CoDriver Walt Walters was knocked un conscious when a wave broke across the boat-but Wynne grimly kept going. So, incredibly, did Jerry Langer in his little outboard. Finally, 4 hrs. 45 min. after the start, Thunderbird churned back into Biscayne Bay, and Winner Wynne gratefully stepped ashore, muttering: "Now that was a wingding." Runner-up Langer, who finished 21 hours behind Wynne, could...