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...spared nothing in pursuit of victory. Bond paid for a complete marina and twelve-meter training facilities at Sun City. He gained the services of Robert Miller, a brilliant, self-taught designer who produced the banana yellow Southern Cross. Bond cash also provided Southern Cross with an on-board computer named Fred that helped evaluate the boat's early performance, and flashed salty admonitions (like "Piss off') to the navigator...
...Marina v.N. Whitman, 39. "I was going to get a master's in journalism and one in economics," she recalls, but she chose economics and went on to become celebrated in 1972 as the first woman member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The daughter of Computer Pioneer John von Neumann, Mrs. Whitman was a junior Phi Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade...
...Marina V. N. Whitman '56, a member of the Board of Overseers, said her role as an advisor to the Federal Economic Council and Price Commission put her on the list. She is now a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh...
...Marina Del Rey, Calif...
...Saybrook boats sit lazily in a sheltered marina while ducks congregate on a small sand island. The tracks open up onto a large body of water, where a group of three men sit quietly in a rowboat, their fishing poles resting on the sides of the boat. A sign at the entrance to Pawtucket, Conn. announces that it is "A Good Place to Live, Work, or Play." A woman walks into Ted's laundromat. A passing truck hauls steel canoes...