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...Plimpton, 53, can lace a speech with quotations from Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Baldwin and other famous non-doctors. Just after he took over Downstate, he participated in a five-day canoe trip in the waterways around New York City, battling the fringe winds and rain of tropical storm Doria and enjoying himself thoroughly. "Even if there were no human bodies broken loose from their concrete sinking blocks in the Gowanus Canal," he says with feigned disappointment. "Canoeing around Brooklyn opens up many new boundaries for head and heart. I recommend...
...Andrea Doria...
...collection has long been a source of controversy. Some of its attributions (made by the late Roberto Longhi) are, in the delicate language of art historians, "optimistic." In the view of some Italian experts the collection ranks some distance after other private and far older collections-those of the Doria, Colonna and Pallavicini families in Rome, the Corsini and Serristori in Florence and the Cini family in Venice. Still, Professor Mario Salmi, vice president of the Consiglio Superiore delle Antichità e Belle Arti, says firmly: "It is undoubtedly the finest private collection of Italian Gothic and Renaissance art made...
...traditional in marine insurance, the policy (with an annual premium of $330,000) had been spread among 120 syndicates in the U.S. and Britain, which will now pay off to Union Oil, the regular charterer of the ship and the beneficiary of the policy. Not since the Andrea Doria sank in 1956, with a loss of $16 million, have marine underwriters faced such a high claim...
...reparations, had only one ship in its merchant marine. Then, in the early '50s, it produced a few of its own ships, purchased some from the Russians, raised and repaired sunken vessels, even bought the Swedish American Line's Stockholm after she rammed and sank the Andrea Doria in 1956. Many of the VEB's early routes were propaganda-oriented, and often East German ships returned home ideologically full but physically empty. Not until 1962 did the company turn all that enterprise toward pure profitmaking. In that year, Rumanian-born Eduard Zimmermann, now 38, who rose from...