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...GIRL OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ by Peter Benchley Doubleday; 237 pages...
...surface of the sea, looking into the water through a mask, and was afraid." This time, though, the menace is misleading. The author of Jaws has produced a simple story that is longer on charm than chills. Paloma, 16, lives on an island in the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California) and mourns her drowned father. For comfort, she spends her days skindiving at the secret place he had shown her: a seamount, or underwater volcanic formation, where an astonishing variety offish gather and feed...
...from this came a number of rather conventional but polished lyrics. "A poem should be wordless/ As the flight of birds," ran the most celebrated one, "Ars Poetica." "A poem should not mean/ But be." But larger ideas were stirring. MacLeish went to Mexico to write the epic of Cortez, and Conquistador won him a Pulitzer for 1932. But by then there were other demands on his talent...
...last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires-at the Royal Americana in December and the Dunes in January -that are believed to have been deliberately set. Two fires, one in December and one in January, were quickly extinguished in the El Cortez hotel, where Cline had worked briefly. He had been dismissed after being charged with the theft of $747.50 from a casino change bank...
...trade slack by thinly disguised transshipments. During the twelve months preceding September 1979, for example, only 764,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat were shipped from Duluth, Minn., to Canada. But in the following twelve months, the quantity more than doubled, to 1.8 million tons. Says William Cortez of the Duluth Port Authority: "This is definitely not grain for Canadian consumption. You have to assume that it is being shipped elsewhere...