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...never been happier. I wouldn't trade places with God." So says George M. Foster, 57, who sold his flourishing Los Angeles ice cream and catering business two years ago to become the operator of a boat marina at the fledgling Arizona town of Lake Havasu City. Foster's spirit is typical of the 2,500 settlers in three-year-old Havasu, an "instant city" built by the California-based McCulloch Oil Corp. along part of the 45-mile lake behind Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River...
...flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
...lean prose, Manchester skillfully traces Oswald's mounting frustrations and emphasizes his wife Marina's role in bringing him to the breaking point. "Lee," he writes, "had thought he had found a beautiful, dedicated Communist who would forever be his submissive darling. He had expected her to scorn the world that scorned him and reject the materialism of a capitalist society." Instead, she jeered at all his failures and paid him the ultimate insult of leaving him. Somewhat melodramatically, Manchester pictures Oswald "going mad" while watching a flickering TV set the night before the murder. The author never...
Bubble baths are so simple that one can even be installed for a lone boat at a private dock (cost: $250). But it is most popular in marinas. This winter the Cos Cob boatyard will keep 80 boats in the water, and Manager Michael Brown expects the number to double again in 1967-68. The one Chicago marina to try it is full to capacity. Ted Fischer, president of the Northport Marina on Long Island installed a bubble system two years ago, now has 75 boats lined up to float until spring...
Boat owners like the new system, which costs about $4.50 per ft. v. $5 to $6 per ft. for hauling. East Coast and Midwest marina owners see it as a way to add to their storage capacity. Happiest of all are the skippers, who need only take off the tarpaulins to take their undrydocked loves out for a run on a rare mild January...