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Most folks in their right mind wouldn't dream of taking a dip in New York City's fermenting East River, unless they were first shoehorned into a pair of cement loafers by a tall guy named Vito. But in a fearless act of her own volition, Julie Ridge, 26, did the unthinkable last week and plunged into the river's murky depths. Some 21 hours and 56 miles later, she was plucked out of the water, the first person ever to swim around Manhattan Island twice. An out-of-work Broadway actress who appeared...
...eventually won the battle by taking over Bendix and has since pushed out former Bendix Chairman William Agee, 45. Pownall, meanwhile, has added the title of chairman to that of president and chief executive officer of Martin Marietta. His company has issued new stock and sold off chemical, cement and mining interests to reduce the staggering $1.3 billion debt largely built up during the takeover defense. But Wall Street has voiced its confidence in Pownall by pushing up Martin Marietta's stock from 33⅛s, its price at the beginning of the battle...
...condominiums are springing up almost everywhere, from the volcanic islands of the Antilles to the 100-mile-long stretch of hitherto virtually untouched barrier reef off the tiny Central American republic of Belize. Along with the vacationers has come a multitude of corporate enterprises: petrochemical plants, electronics factories, cement works. Attracted by special economic enticements and an eager labor force, industry now occupies or overlooks once pristine mangrove swamps and placid lagoons like those that dot the coast of Puerto Rico...
Only in the winter, the teams take to the tanks. In the recesses of Newell Boat House, the sliding seats and oarlocks of an eight-man shell are duplicated not once but twice Oars extend into water contained in tanks on either side of the cement blocks that hold the oar locks and seats...
...Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...