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...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
...will now be called to testify. Silverman will also attempt to interrogate two men closely connected with Masselli who were not questioned during the first probe: Joseph Verlezza, an associate of Genovese gangsters, and Alfred Ditraglia, who watches over Masselli's interests in the Miami area, including an oceanfront condominium. During the initial inquiry, Verlezza claimed he was too ill to testify; Ditraglia could not be found by Silverman's staff...
...young woman was not unlike the fading Hawaiian afternoon: sunny and unhurried, going with the proverbial flow. A Finnish dental student halfway through a round-the-world vagabondage, she stood at the side of the oceanfront highway at Nanakuli Beach Park, waiting for a bus that would take her back to Honolulu. But she did not arrive at her hotel until late the next day. During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already...
...like Xanadu revisited. Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach, lies dormant, its 115 rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally reluctant to give...
...requires utilities to reimburse customers for any surplus electricity that the windmills feed back into the system. Such surplus power could occur, for example, during periods when winds are strong but household electrical consumption is low. Retired Farmer John F. Wolfe, 62, installed an Enertech 1500 at his oceanfront house in Barnstable, Mass., to harness Cape Cod breezes. When he and his wife are asleep, the windmill keeps churning. Since the local utility company has to buy the power back from him, his overall monthly bill winds up substantially lower...