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Distenfield now handles accounts for at least 25 convicts. Most trade in low-priced stock, but "they are doing about as well as anyone else playing the market today," says their teacher. One prisoner bought Outboard Marine at 12, sold at 21; then he bought Kaiser Aluminum at 16, sold at 26. Another invested $900, in Kaiser Aluminum and American Motors, and eight months later had an investment worth more than $1,400. Still, other customers have not done so well. One of Distenfield's students bought 20 shares of a Chicago real estate investment company, only...
...while, the Vance's crew was prepared to suffer these and other bellicose crotchets. They even volunteered to man his most cinematic creation, an outboard speedboat, bought with $950 taken from the crew's recreation fund and paraded near shore flaunting a huge American flag. In Arnheiter's tactical imagination, Old Glory would draw enraged Viet Cong fire and thus reveal the lurking enemy to the punishing guns of the audacious Vance. What really got Arnheiter into trouble, though, was raising Queegsotic Caine over loose shirttails and dirty dungarees. Worse than that, the captain forced everyone...
...reality. The derring-do that had survival value in frontier days is still extolled in the U.S.; yet it is obsolete. In an industrialized nation where most jobs are routine, a man cannot win status through on-the-job valor. To compensate, he surrounds himself with power tools, outboard motors, high-performance cars, snowmobiles and the like. These give him, at play, "the feelings of control, power, masculinity and risk no longer available at work...
...March, a sailboat regatta in April, a water-skiing meet in June. As a special added attraction this year, there was the formal dedication of London Bridge, imported block by block from the banks of the Thames. When it comes to truly big splashes, though, nothing quite matches the Outboard World Championship...
Last weekend, 40,000 outboard enthusiasts descended on Havasu to see the world's best drivers vie for a record $62,750 in prizes. Part race, part promotion and part proving ground for the latest refinements in hull and engine design, the eighth annual championship drew factory teams as formidable as those massed for the Indianapolis 500. Packing one, two and even three high-powered engines, the boats carried the brand names of Mercury (60 entries), Evinrude (17), Johnson (13) and Chrysler (8). With manufacturers investing millions a year in dozens of races, data on key factors like horsepower...