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...election, though, he could well be in line for a Cabinet seat. Meanwhile, besides his new business, there are his three homes to attend to-an apartment in Kensington and country mansions in Shropshire and Wales-and two Shropshire dairy farms to supervise. Harlech commutes among them in a custom-built Gordon-Keeble sports car with a top speed of 140 m.p.h. (he has two warnings on his license; the third means suspension). He spends a good deal of time with his children, who are living, breathing catalogues of where the young are at. Jane, 25, the wife...
Until now, only a few naval and scientific vessels used the Transit system, largely because the shipboard equipment is so expensive. Custom-built, each receiver costs between $21,000 and $35,000, compared with $5,000 to $10,000 for a LORAN rig. In addition, each ship needs a $25,000 computer. The Navy hopes that commercial manufacture will lower the unit cost, allowing more Transit use by Navy as well as merchant ships. Last week most details of the system were being turned over to interested U.S. electronics manufacturers. The company that can most efficiently simplify the system...
...when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select and secluded environment or achieve visible social status-and this means until...
Doing Well. This helped explain how Karafin, on an $11,000 Inquirer salary, could wheel around town in a pair of expensive Buicks, live in a house worth $45,000, buy $20,000 worth of furniture, and install such extras as central air conditioning and a custom-built staircase. And deck his wife in furs and jewelry, and vacation in Europe and Puerto Rico, and dabble in the stock market. But it was only part of the explanation. Philadelphia's reporters also discovered that Karafin was doing very well in a public relations sideline of investigative reporting...
...popped out of Jensen's mold in Costa Mesa, Calif., and more are coming at the rate of three per month. Fully equipped, a Cal-40 goes for around $35,000, a far cry from the $60,000 to $100,000 that some ocean sailors spend on their custom-built boats...