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...only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through a cloud of rising air bubbles to the ship...
Endowed with only 30 years of proven reserves, the most populous and powerful nation in black Africa had been counting heavily on high prices to pay the cost of a colossal industrialization and agricultural development program designed to buoy the economy after the oil runs out. Since 1975, Nigeria has spent upwards of $80 billion on economic development, and in the coming four years the government of President Alhaji Shehu Shagari wants to spend perhaps $152 billion more. In 1981 alone, overall imports are expected to reach $24 billion, mostly for heavy machinery, transportation equipment and food...
...however, the only President in the past ten years to have worn white tie and tails three times, chopped half a cord of wood, ridden a horse, shortened the Inaugural parade, received a ton of jelly beans, got eight pints of new blood and floated enough good humor to buoy, after a 17-year drought, the hopes of those people who compile books on presidential wit. But these things are not the stuff of Schlesingerian legend...
Different folks paint with different strokes. But that is no reason why a 20th century artist like Andrew Wyeth should not come to the aid of an 18th century portrait painter like Gilbert Stuart. To buoy Bostonians who are trying to raise $2.5 million by year's end to keep Stuart's famous paintings of George and Martha Washington from eloping to the National Portrait Gallery in that other Washington, Wyeth came down from Maine to contribute to Boston's "Save Our Stuarts" campaign. The guru of Chadd's Ford even posed, check in hand, with...
...River, and during the Fourth of July festivities, half a dozen wind-surfers participated in a race through New York harbor. Wind-surfing championships will be held this fall in Clearwater, Fla., with competition in such categories as slalom-type racing, freestyle, long-distance (up to 15 miles) and buoy ball (a kind of water rugby). For those more inclined toward the social aspects of the sport, there are more than 100 "fleets" or clubs in the U.S. and Canada that hold informal regattas. "The sport is developing very much like skiing," says Dick Lamb, president of the International Windsurfer...