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...Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American guard threw a copy of LIFE into his cell. In it, he saw an advertisement for a motorboat...
After the U.S. gave up its attempt to prosecute him, Sasakawa fast-talked the government into letting him set up a series of motorboat races on which the public could legally bet. The races proved to be a big hit and also provided more cash with which Sasakawa could pile up giri. As head of the monopoly that controls the races even today, Sasakawa dispenses 3% of ticket sales ($105 million this year) to favored causes, including charities and research into shipbuilding technology. He has been most generous, though, to Japan's martial arts societies, bragging that he commands...
...friend Carol Jenks were floating off West Yarmouth, Mass., on a rubber raft. Pretty soon a wind came up and the girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene...
...popular model is a flimsy-looking, delta-shaped affair designed by Francis Rogallo, a former NASA engineer. The pilot usually takes off by leaping from a cliff or dune. He hangs suspended in a harness, and steers by leaning right or left. He may also get aloft behind a motorboat or automobile -a more dangerous technique. Though James Bond used a Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped...
There are some 50 Franciscan missionaries in the area, but Father Luke is the only physician among them. In 1970, he began to work "out of two black bags and a motorboat" around Santar...