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...decline in traffic and revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike." The airline had been forced to cut scheduled flights by 25% as a result of the firings. Air New England's celebrated clientele, which had long used the airline for transportation to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and other resort areas, are being picked up by Provincetown-Boston Airline and New York...
...Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through a cloud of rising air bubbles to the ship...
...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...
...denounce part of the beer-blasting, drug-strewn lifestyle that was his trademark. The birth of his daughter Savannah Jane in 1979 turned the man's thinking to the more pragmatic aspects of life. Though he still imbibes the greenies with regularity and enters races like Nantucket's Opera House Cup in his new sailboat also christened Savannah Jane), it is plain to see that marriage and a family--two of the heaviest anchors known to man--have caused even Jimmy Buffet to change his wild ways...