Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Pete Seeger and the Hudson River Sloop Singers give a performance aboard the Clearwater, a replica of the sloops that sailed New York's Hudson River during the 1800s...
...Costas Lemos, 60, is by far the wealthiest of all Greek shipowners. His net worth: about $750 million. At the end of World War II, he owned a shipping line, but no ships at all. The war had destroyed 70% of the Greek merchant fleet, including the three Lemos vessels. To replace them, Lemos bought three U.S. Liberty ships at cut-rate prices. Like many other Greeks, he has devised quite a few new methods and designs, including a combination liquid-dry cargo ship that can haul a load of oil on an outbound voyage and return with a cargo...
...London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai (pop. 1,500), the net worth of the people jumps to about $4 billion. The other Greeks are perfectly happy to let "Ari" Onassis and Stavros Niarchos capture the headlines. As far as they are concerned, what really counts is not what the outside world thinks of them but how they are graded...
...artist, poet of the physically tormented. Perhaps because there was so little time to moderate or reshape, and so little time to draw on the formidable talents of his friends, Mayer has given clearer voice to these fundamental propositions about his own world than is his custom. The net effect is to raise questions about the irreconcilability of his tow persona...
Their opponents, Peter Dodge and Fred Hopengarten, played a strong net game but were outclassed by the powerful ground strokes and serving of Inman and Epstein...