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There are about 150 Americans on Majuro (pop. 7,500), and it is difficult for them not to stick together. The district center of the Marshall Islands is a bacillus-shaped coral atoll less than 100 yds. wide. A palm-fringed island with a glistening lagoon, Majuro shelters the most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate...
Next came the touchy matter of telling Burns. Tuesday evening Carter himself reached Burns in West Palm Beach and asked him to come to Washington, without saying why. Mondale was dispatched in an Air Force DC-9 to pick up Burns. The flight to Washington was quite stilted with Mondale and Burns both knowing what they should be talking about but never mentioning...
...honeymoon will wait until February, when the Palm Beach, Fla. exhibition of his prison paintings has closed. Still, Watergater E. Howard Hunt, 59, found time to pop open some bubbly and toast his new bride. She is Laura Martin, 31, a former Georgia schoolteacher whom he met through friends over a year ago. It has been ten months since Hunt finished his jail term for Watergate burglary, and he says, "I'm very optimistic and look forward to peace and quiet." And prosperity. Hunt's paintings have been moving well (one recently went...
DIED. Howard Hawks, 81, director of such lean, fast-paced films as Red River, The Big Sleep and Scarface; of complications from a concussion caused by a fall; in Palm Springs, Calif. "For me, the best drama is the one that deals with a man in danger," said Hawks, and the endangered men of his movies included such giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming...
...attract new deposits, banks have been giving away everything from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...