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...week, bashed about New York harbor as a tugboat captain before he joined the late Albert Moore in 1913 to form their own shipping company, which now ranks as the country's third biggest with 40 freighters, two passenger liners; of a series of strokes; in West Palm Beach...
...fewer than a million Americans seeking the sun have bought homes in Florida. Even more have taken the half step of buying land -for retirement, for future vacations, or merely for an investment. Now the trend is spreading overseas. From Caracas to Hong Kong, thousands of foreigners are buying palm-fringed lots in Florida, a place that most of them have never seen...
...which means that the odds on some golfer's holing out his tee shot in any P.G.A. tournament are only about 2½ to 1. Lloyd's of London should have looked up the odds when they insured a $50,000 hole-in-one prize for the Palm Springs Golf Classic. In 1960, the tournament sponsors paid a premium of $4,500, and Joe Campbell scored an ace. In 1961, Lloyd's hiked it to $13,500, and Don January scored a hole in one. In 1962, the rate soared to $18,800, and Dick Mayer took...
...behind the Pentagon's sales effort is Henry J. Kuss Jr., 42, a New York City-born economist whose formidable title is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Logistics Negotiations. His 27-man staff does not try to palm off expensive weapons systems on a country, instead studies foreign strategies and figures out what new U.S. arms or equipment could help most. The staff has much to choose from, chiefly because U.S. military research spending totals more than $3 billion a year v. only $400 million in Britain, $180 million in Germany, $175 million in France...
Died. Kent Cooper, 84, general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters...