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Skow approached Baker at his Nantucket Island retreat, where he found the columnist on his knees, plucking crab grass from a walk, and looking every bit the compulsive suburbanite sometimes mirrored in his column. Skow spent two days with the Baker family. He toured the island, shared the view from a widow's walk atop the house, and discovered that his 17-year impression of Baker was correct. Reports Skow: "He is not a performer. He is a man who lives very much inside his own head, a thoughtful conversationalist who would just as soon listen as talk...
Baker and his wife Mimi rent three floors of a four-story brownstone ("a dilapidation," they call it) on Manhattan's East Side. But the Bakers' beloved sheltering place is a gray shingle and white clapboard summer house on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. It was built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather...
They are everywhere, camping in Alaska, stamping to the beat of New Orleans jazz, tramping up Nob Hill, wolfing down lobsters on Nantucket, shooting white water on the Colorado River, besieging Bloomingdale's. Foreign tourists love a bargain as much as anybody else, and thanks to the decline of the dollar, the U.S. rather suddenly has become the world's major travel bargain. In consequence, the nation is finally getting a nice slice of international tourism, which is one of the biggest and fastest growing (up 18% last year, to $60 billion) items of global trade...
...virtually deregulated, those finds have become all the more desirable. Though the Supreme Court decision set no precedent, the oilmen hope it may move other courts to rule in their favor in a case involving those lease tracts in the Georges Bank area, 100 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass., that are still blocked...
...their attempts to prospect for the huge quantities of oil and gas believed to lie under the Atlantic, U.S. oil companies suffered yet another setback last week. A federal court in Boston stopped the sale of oil leases on Georges Bank, a rich fishing ground 100 miles southeast of Nantucket. It thus put off for months, and possibly years, the day when drilling could begin...