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...small control room on the Bahamian island of North Bimini, Marine Biologist Arthur Myrberg pushed a button, then stared intently at a television monitor. Within half a minute, the TV screen came alive with thrashing sharks, groupers, snappers and other large inhabitants of the deep. Myrberg's surprising underwater show had once again started on cue-as it does whenever he signals his aquatic actors...
...charges that he misused some $40,000 of public funds. Now he had returned from exile. Re-elected by his faithful Harlem constituency six weeks after his expulsion, and re-elected again in November, the wayward sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take his seat. From the rear of the chamber, where he had been...
Tommy Gifford has seen Big Daddy "at least six times." A charterboat captain for 50 years, Gifford, 71, had his first encounter with a giant blue off Bimini in 1936. "I was skippering for a fisherman named Mike Lerner," recalls Gifford, "and we hooked into this fish at 3 p.m. What a scene that was! The marlin jumped 25 times, and tail-walked through the entire fleet of boats. At one point, he jumped so close to my boat that he threw barrels of water into our faces and darned near drowned us. We fought him for eight hours until...
...will be clapped into jail on contempt charges springing from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Harlem widow. Although the faithful overwhelmingly endorsed him yet again in a special election last April to fill the House seat vacated by his exclusion, Powell remained ensconced on Bimini with his former secretary Corinne Huff. Two weeks ago, he did interrupt his endless summer long enough to spirit himself into Washington for an hour's testimony before a federal grand jury looking into his possible misdeeds...
Midst marital ruins stood: A. & P. Heir Huntingdon Hartford, 56, whose third wife Diane, 25, has recently been seeing the sights with Singer Bobby Darin and now wants a permanent split plus $4,000 weekly alimony; Bimini Beachboy Adam Clayton Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second...