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...people in the lower brackets that will be hurt worst," city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci added Monday. "Those in the higher income group can find their way to Nantucket or to the prep schools...
...Best Western Buccaneer Inn resort motel in Naples, Fla., by way of describing the biggest change in tourist travel patterns since Americans began flocking to the then inexpensive delights of Europe in the postwar years. From the manicured streets of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., to the beaches of Nantucket and Cape Cod, the U.S. is playing host this summer to an army of overseas visitors that is expected to rise 19% above the 1979 level to a record 8.2 million people. While the ranks of such visitors have nearly doubled in the past five years, 1980 will go down...
...Department scrambling to get one of the nine vacationing Supreme Court Justices to issue a stay order that would suspend the Philadelphia decision. At week's end, barely 40 hours before registration was to begin, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. granted the stay from his summer home on Nantucket Island, Mass. As a result, registration will proceed as planned pending a final decision on the case by the full court, possibly by early fall...
...tide would have been "weak to zero." Moreover, Mehaute said, just about then the tide turned and the current through the channel started flowing south. The implication was that the current would have carried Kennedy toward Edgartown's narrow inner harbor and the shore, not north toward Nantucket Sound. In rebuttal, Kennedy Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith produced oceanographic studies, commissioned by the Senator, showing that the tide had been running north until 1:36 a.m., a few minutes after Kennedy said he began the swim...
...airline cannot be blamed for the fog that frequently socks in Nantucket and the Vineyard. But when weather trouble seems likely, passengers are given little cards bearing a macabre and somewhat existential warning: DESTINATION DOUBTFUL. This relieves the airline of any obligation to put people up in a hotel in case, say, a New York-to-Nantucket flight must be diverted to Boston. Columnist Baker recalls one too typical experience. Before buying his ticket in New York City, he asked if there would be a problem with fog at Nantucket. As Baker tells it, "The clerk said no, Nantucket...