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...calm weather five months ago aboard Conrad's sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because...
...Beach, Del. The engineers' castle lasted longest, but all the entries, naturally, crumbled eventually -symbolic evidence of the folly of building on dunes and beaches. It was good fun, but it also helped draw attention to the overdevelopment, worsening pollution and mismanagement of resources, which are combining to foul the coasts...
...fair means or foul, avoiding taxes has become a popular U.S. sport. Nicholas Murray of the investment firm of Shearson Loeb Rhoades estimates that queries about tax shelters have doubled in the past year. Says William G. Brennan, publisher of a tax shelter newsletter in Valley Forge, Pa.: "Because of inflation, more and more people keep landing in the 50% bracket, and that's what makes sheltering profitable." An estimated 2 million individual tax returns now fall into the 50% bracket with taxable incomes of $41,500 or above for single people and $60,000 or above for couples...
...pitchers. Baltimore Orioles Pitcher Scott McGregor, a high school teammate of Brett's in El Segundo, Calif., suffered a typical fate during a recent match-up with him. Trying to protect a 1-run lead, McGregor gave up a bunt single. Brett stepped up. He nicked off five foul balls that were not quite to his liking. In between, he stepped out of the batter's box to talk to himself, a sotto voce monologue designed to keep up his confidence. "I'm hot," Brett informed himself, an assertion no pitcher would dispute. "I'm gonna...
Still angry about the hot cocoa, I returned to my seat, which was in a good spot just behind the quarterback on the second base foul line. Just as I sat down, everyone stood to watch Bob Avenelli, the Bears' quarterback, throw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line for a home run. But before they could even put the five points on the scorecard, the umpire blew a whistle and called a penalty stroke because one of the Bears' infielders had done an illegal block, what they...