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Million-Dollar Answers. The Creole is more than a princely pleasure barge; it is also the flagship from which Niarchos directs the far-flung fleet of 48 merchantmen that carry his initial, a sprawling N, on their smokestacks. Each morning last week, while his guests still lay abed, Niarchos settled himself at a desk in his fawn-carpeted stateroom. With an unlighted Papastratos No. 1 cigarette between his lips, he pored over...
...east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, was a Basque. A Basque legend has it, indeed, that a dying Basque seafarer told Columbus of the New World's existence...
...British film called Kind Hearts and Coronets, an admiral went down with his flagship, at full salute, unflinching as the waters closed over his beard. It was, of course, a British spoof of the proud Royal Navy, whose tradition of impenetrable reticence earned it the name "Silent Service." Now that the U.S. has become the world's greatest naval power, a certain relaxation of the stiff upper lip is in order. In overstated understatement, H.M.S. Ulysses is trying to show that the Royal Navy had a royal and rugged time of it in World War II-and that anything...
...hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does not want to sail with us may go ashore...
...itself a bigger slice of this audience, Manhattan's WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...