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...years later, he had saved $20,000; by the age of 23, his tobacco had made him a dollar millionaire. Then came the Depression, and with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each had cost $2,000,000 to build ten years earlier. When World War II broke out, Onassis owned many of the precious tankers in Allied waters...
...avoid this effect, and thus make the fall of the three all the more dramatic, Senelick is forced to mute the first act. Unfortunately Leantio, the merchant's clerk who loses his high-born bride on account of his stupid, Ben Franklin punctilliousness, has some of his best and most revealing lines in the opening moments: losing them destroys some of the irony so carefully worked into succeeding scenes. But as Kenny McBain went at the role rather gingerly throughout all of last night's performance, Leantio may be better served when he settles into the part...
...thinker. I knew Tallin in the mid-thirties, in the days when Russian men of culture were slaughtered in the name of international Communism. I last saw him in his tiny one-room apartment in Moscow, which was dominated by a huge black and white canvas entitled The Fish Merchant and Fish. Neither merchant nor fish were in evidence-it was hardly an example of having "knuckled under" to Communist social realism. We drank tea and listened to Tallin playing a lute (made with his own hands) and singing old Russian ballads learned from blind minstrels, with whom he traveled...
With that salvo, the Soviets last month launched their latest assault on what has long been pretty much a free-world preserve: seaborne trade between non-Communist nations. The Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold. At stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent...
Real Threat. The Soviet push is backed up by a fast-growing merchant fleet. A virtual nonentity 15 years ago, the Red fleet now numbers 1,350 oceangoing ships totaling 10 million tons, ranks sixth in the world, after Liberia (actually a "flag of convenience" for ships of many nations), Britain, the U.S., Norway and Japan. At its current million-ton-a-year growth rate, the U.S.S.R. could well be at the top by the early 1970s...