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Pumps & Profits. Years ago, a marina could be built for a few thousand dollars: a wooden-piling dock, a gas pump, a shack to sell beer and bait. Today's marina may cost as much as $10 million or more for a layout as complete as any inland shopping center. Run properly, with low dockage rates (anywhere from ½?to 6? per foot per day depending on season) and efficient service, it can produce a handsome profit for any businessman. Says one East Coast marinaman: "With good management, you can conservatively make a 20% return on your investment each...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...readers scurried to tell the editors just what the Prince could have told the bashful maid, the rival Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,696) rode TO THE RESCUE one day before the Express' deadline. WHAT COULD THE PRINCE HAVE SAID? asked the tabloid Mirror in a seven-column layout. The answer: Nothing. "His conversation with her had ended BEFORE she looked bashful!" trumpeted the Mirror. The Mirror tracked down the photographer who took the one-in-ten-thousand picture, and he confirmed the Mirror's beat. Not only was the Prince not talking to the nurse when...
...platform and the Schuler-pendulum, corrected by a chronometer which allows for the earth's rotation, exact readings of a plane's (or missile's) latitude and longitude are made, then translated into instructions for the servomechanisms that operate the controls. (A variant of this layout, not described by Draper, uses similar gyros to fix position, radios continuously back to home base for flight instructions.) Throughout the flight, the control system also operates like a normal automatic pilot, making necessary minor corrections for pitch, yaw and roll...
Some nights Beck dresses in slacks and pocket-monogrammed smoking jacket to play host in the underground layout that is the real showplace of his home. Some of the Compound's boys are always on hand to run the 35-mm. CinemaScope movie projectors in his 45-seat theater. Others are ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters...