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Trudging a quarter of a mile back to the starting dock, barefoot on the hot pebbly sand, can be a bit painful. But Slim Maxwell is about to install a rescue operation by using a golf cart...
...chain is owned by two American brothers, Ralph Brandon, 65, and David Brandon, 61, who first ventured into the supermarket business 20 years ago in Cuba after making a fortune there in textile mills and finance. Despite some skepticism that Latin men would never be seen pushing a grocery cart, their first supermarket in Havana was an immediate success, and soon the brothers Brandon owned a chain of 14 stores in Cuba. When Castro nationalized their stores in 1960, the Brandons started anew in Mexico, where they now own four stores and operate twelve others...
During the steel campaign, we dug up the basketball courts to make small furnaces, and students worked alongside teachers in shifts, day and night. I remember pulling a cart-load of scrap iron from a railway siding to the school (probably about ten miles), catching a few hours of sleep on a desk, and then taking my turn at the furnaces. The slogan then was "in the furnace we temper steel, outside we temper people...
...reopening the pavilion-but by then the Indonesians had made off with $20,000 worth of art objects. Moses and his aides retaliated at once. A squad of blue-uniformed Pinkertons, loaded pistols at their sides, sealed off the pavilion. When a crew of Indonesians breezed up to cart off more looty-booty, the Pinks barred the way. At the same time, fair officials fired off a cable advising Djakarta that the pavilion had been seized and that Indonesia's rights of entry "are hereby terminated, effective immediately...
...nowhere has gargoyle snatching reached such staggering proportions as in Manhattan. There a dogged band of New Yorkers, who call themselves the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society, has managed to cart off for posterity more than 100 tons of chips off notable old blocks. Led by its founder, Ivan Karp, a 38-year-old pop art dealer, the society's hundred dues-paying sympathizers rally wherever the wrecker's ball threatens. Favorite salvage is the architectural ornamentation carved by unknown immigrant European stonemasons who embellished New York's great turn-of-the-century construction boom. On occasion, however...