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...spared nothing in pursuit of victory. Bond paid for a complete marina and twelve-meter training facilities at Sun City. He gained the services of Robert Miller, a brilliant, self-taught designer who produced the banana yellow Southern Cross. Bond cash also provided Southern Cross with an on-board computer named Fred that helped evaluate the boat's early performance, and flashed salty admonitions (like "Piss off') to the navigator...
...glitches. A coolant leak was discovered in one air-conditioning system, and suspected in another. A short circuit briefly troubled the telescope mount. Several external lights, intended for use during the space walk, failed to work, as did a video-tape recorder and an automatic camera. Skylab's on-board teleprinter also broke down, but the astronauts were able...
Added Lumps. Cunard ordered the changes to increase both passenger revenues and on-board spending, particularly by Americans. Nonetheless, the facelift, which was devised by a Florida kitchen-supply firm, has made Britain's designing establishment a bit seasick. Dennis Lennon, who was chiefly responsible for the original interior design of the ship, quit after two weeks on the new project. "It was a national ship," he explained. "It wasn't something to play around with and turn into a honky-tonk." James Gardner, the principal exterior designer of the original, said of the altered superstructure: "We tried...
...preservation of duty-free shops, which are a source of considerable income for the airports. Also worried is British Railways, which operates ferries that carry 6,000,000 travelers across the English Channel every year. These tourists are such eager spenders that British Railways is building new ships with on-board duty-free "supermarkets" so capacious that passengers will be given self-service shopping carts to push around...
...semipermanent cocktail groups have formed, each with its own quasi-reserved section of deck space. Crew members have been known to introduce lonesome secretaries to shy brokers, and Captain Chuck Riechert, who went to the extreme of obtaining a mail-order certificate as a minister, last February conducted the on-board wedding of a devoted Golden Gate couple...