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...former world-class motorboat racer and boat salesman with a persuasive personality, Michael made more than 250 campaign speeches for his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Son of Reagan | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...place to count their catch from the surrounding pearl-rich waters. In the 1920s, a mysterious disease killed off the oyster beds, and for decades Contadora remained just another of the obscure-if beautiful-islands that speckle the Gulf of Panama. Then, in the late 1960s, the motorboat of the wealthy Lewis conked out near the island, and he came away with blueprints dancing in his eyes. For $30,000 he bought the island, and development was under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shah's Haven | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...first start fooling around there are some amusing cross-cultural jokes, as well as touching erotic interludes in dreamy Riviera locales. But the affair quickly becomes a high-toned soap opera that devours the movie. By the end, the hero and heroine are adrift at sea in a stalled motorboat, screaming platitudes at each other. The scene looks like a parody of Lina Wertmuller, but not, alas, an intentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cannes Game | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Democrats will probably, retain their 61-vote margin in the Senate and lose only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues are purely regional ? motorboat restrictions in Minnesota's Boundary Waters canoe area, a city charter revision in Philadelphia, a referendum on homosexual teachers in California ?yet the money question is not only the dominant national issue but also the principal local one. And although the national temper is by no means so angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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