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...worth waiting for. With the drama of a Melville (a writer, says Allen, who was greatly scorned by whaling men), it re-enacts the entrapment in ice and then the abandonment, in the summer of 1871, of 32 New England whaling ships, the biggest and costliest such fleet ever assembled. The ice closed round the ships and wrecked them. The crews escaped in small whaleboats and were eventually picked up. Of 1,200 men aboard the vessels not a soul was lost. But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow...
...turned out to be the costliest and most dangerous engagement in 25 years of Middle East tension, and its fearful consequences were still not fully calculated. Last week the Yom Kippur War (as Israelis call it) threatened to involve not only Israelis and Arabs, but Russians and Americans as well, in a bewildering and exhaustive kaleidoscope of crisis. The week began with a seemingly firm display of East-West détente: a joint Moscow-Washington resolution introduced in the United Nations that called for a stop to the fighting and the commencement of peace negotiations. By midweek...
Fellow Frenchmen rather grudgingly call him "the father of the tower," because of his role in building the Maine-Montparnasse Tower, the most controversial Parisian structure since M. Eiffel's spindly folly. It is Europe's tallest (686 ft.) and costliest ($235 million) office building; last month its shops and boutiques opened, and its office space is already 90% taken...
...cancer; in Manhattan. Kriendler, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, was for years the host at the world-famous restaurant that began as a speakeasy and became a clublike haven for celebrities, racing gentry and tycoons. The restaurant features the world's costliest hamburgers, an impressive cellar and a murky bar area decorated with scale-model beer trucks and airplanes. Mack Kriendler determined nightly which of the 50,000 sat in splendor at the bar or the main dining room and which were relegated to the limbo of the second floor Bottle Room...
Increasingly ubiquitous, they are even freer spending than the Americans were in their heyday. At Dunhill, the sedate tobacconist in London, three winsome Japanese girls wait on the busloads of their countrymen who visit every day and walk away with the costliest pipes. (Americans usually buy the cheapest.) At the Pathek-Philippe factory in Geneva, Japanese queue up to buy watches for as much as $5,000 apiece...