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...tipster-a bank employee who claims to have been asked by a friend to help plan the burglary-it might have worked. Last week, acting again on the informant's tip, police went to an apartment in Coral Gables and arrested a suspect: William McFarlan, 23, a 170-lb., 5-ft. 6-in. freshman law student at the University of Miami, who was charged with grand theft and burglary. Police are now searching for a missing coin collection worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crate Idea for a Caper | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran Trilogy for daylong sails, or the 65-ft. glass-bottomed boat Coral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...proved a fateful decision. Roughly 80 miles off the coast of the island of Hispaniola, the wooden ship ground into a coral reef known today as Silver Shoals. The admiral and much of his crew floated to shore on rafts lashed together from the debris, but the ship's rich cargo sank beneath the waves. Just 46 years later, Colonist William Phips, born of a poor Maine family, found the Concepción and hauled up 32 tons of silver from the barnacle-encrusted wreck. In return for one-fifth of the find, a grateful King James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Treasure of Silver Shoals | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...fields, could not be used effectively. Haskins' research had revealed that the galleon was outfitted with nonmagnetic bronze cannons and that its iron anchors had been cut loose in deeper waters. The ship's remaining iron artifacts, such as hull fittings and cannon balls, had slipped into coral crevices where the device could not detect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Treasure of Silver Shoals | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...hunt around the Quincy Market until you find the store which sells nothing but seashells and related items in the line of maritime oddities. Think of the look on your Grandmother's face when you present her with a carefully--wrapped, three--feet across chunk of purple brain coral. If this sort of thrill is worth 125 clams to you, go ahead. If you're a bit more modest you could send her a shark tooth necklace or even a complete shark jaw for a reasonable amount. But if Poverty is your middle name, you could send out a fleet...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

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