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From a British naval helicopter an airman was lowered into the water to pick up what looked like a body. "Got it," he said, but all he had was a pair of trousers shorn off at the knees. A motorboat crew threw a grappling hook at what looked like another body. It was a shark and two pilot fish. Five bodies were recovered, three men and two women, and doctors who examined them were struck by the similarity of their injuries to those suffered in the Comet disaster off Elba. There were no significant burn marks, no sign of oxygen...
What none of the Buenos Aires rumors quite explained was Perón's current taste in off-hours relaxation; piloting a motorboat at 70 m.p.h. on the River Plate, driving racing cars and motorcycles, fencing with Foreign Minister Jerónimo Remorino, dancing all evening with guests at his Olivos estate, which he recently turned over as a clubhouse for the Buenos Aires' High School Girls' Union...
...little island of San Giovanni in Lake Maggiore, Italy, where he has been reading the Bible and Dante, listening to records and taking motorboat rides. Old Maestro Arturo Toscanini, 86, told visitors that his next U.S. concert season (beginning Nov. 7 in Carnegie Hall) would be his last. "When I come back here in April," he said, "I want to stay...
...shores of Seattle's Lake Washington last week a man selling opera glasses yelled: "It's up to the old lady, folks! Come and get 'em so you can see her run." The old lady is a fin-tailed, mahogany-plywood motorboat called Slo-Mo-Shun IV, slightly faster than her younger sister, Slo-Mo-Shun V, and holder of the world straightaway speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. With Slo-Mo V disabled by a pre-race accident last week, Slo-Mo IV had to hold off five Detroit challengers for speedboating's most prized trophy...
...sister, Reo, was a professional parachute jumper. Another sister, Ethel, was the top woman racing driver in 1947-48. Brother Carl was an outboard-motorboat racer. Brother Bob was a leading racing driver in 1951 until he broke his neck. He retired after two races this season...