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...this is just water off the oil skins of François Spoerry, the man responsible for the Riviera's most spectacular new marina. Spoerry, 56, is an Alsatian architect and boat nut. He bought his swamp (for $600,000) in 1966; he dredged it and built the quays; he designed the houses and has been putting them up ever since. "I have tried to integrate the boat into the life of the vacation house," he says. "I built Port Grimaud for people who love sailing and the sea." And naturally, for profit...
...students in the Department of Comparative Literature who attended the meeting. Joan Tapper Wendy Bush Carmelita Boivin Sara Bershtel Peter Herman Charles Bernheimer Jane Goldsmith Yehudy Lindeman Rae Ann Nager Anthony Vincent Kenneth R. Androué Jeffrey Green Roger Horwitz Regina Kyle Susan Kirkpatrick Michael Ouellette Lynda Christian Marina Frederiksen Richard Blumenthal Laimdota Mazzarins Peter Grudin Peter Heinegg Jale Parla Ellen Cantarow
Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen...
Fewer Passengers. To trade up, "Bud" Beinecke has been buying up. To attract yachtsmen, he and a Nantucket partner have bought out most of the deteriorated wharf front and constructed a large shopping center and marina complex that has tripled the number of yacht berths. To keep some of the penny-ante trippers away, he has refused to renew the lease on his docks for one of the excursion steamers out of Hyannis and demanded that the other carry fewer passengers at higher rates. To upgrade the mainstreet shopping area, he has bought up 80% of the commercial acreage...
...result is a wave of construction projects resembling so many concrete-and-steel layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...