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Tito's demands alternated between the extravagant and the trivial. He demanded corridors to the sea, large chunks of Italian-held territory, extraterritorial rights to and inside the port of Trieste. He fought over an acre here, a playground there, a rock quarry, a beach. But slowly his demands were beaten down to a strip of land one mile long and 400 yards wide running through the village of Lazaretto. The Italians, who stayed out of the London talks but were kept closely informed, entered some objections. Then Tito shifted some more...
Anyone at Baltusrol could have told Ed what was wrong with his game. But it was 25 years too late to be helpful. As a kid on a Utica, N.Y. playground, he had broken his left arm. It never mended properly. Now it was permanently crooked and withered. To balance his swing, Furgol had learned to keep his right arm bent. Even so, he was outhitting some of the best at Baltusrol. And he was playing steady, accurate golf. Not until the 18th hole of the last round was he in real trouble. Then he hooked his drive deep into...
...topped bar enclosing a tiny fleet of ancient and modern ship models. Said Onassis, after a look around: "I am very pleased with the job done." Not content with his new ship, Tycoon Onassis also announced some big plans for Monte Carlo, which he bought both as headquarters and playground last year. With a three-story office building (remodeled at a cost of $100,000) to house his 100-man staff, Onassis plans to spend $1,000,000 a year to air-condition and modernize the famed old Casino itself, and build a new dance pavilion. For tourists he will...
...from Germany. He was a successful businessman and quite active in community affairs ... I attended the Ethical Culture School and Harvard College, which I entered in 1922." . A classmate recalls that, as a third-or fourth-grader, Robert made one of his infrequent trips to the playground. A child threw a ball out of the lot, and the school director admonished the youngsters, telling them they might have injured a passerby. Robert immediately calculated the probable force with which the ball had struck the sidewalk, demonstrating that its velocity could not have hurt anyone. In high school, he learned calculus...
...plush playground, Wenner-Gren in 1951 picked flat Andros, biggest (104 miles long) of the Bahama Islands. Andros has not prospered much since pirate times; the population, mostly Negro, is still under 10,000. But it has splendid white beaches, a sunny, breeze-cooled climate and enough bonefish, wahoo, tarpon, blue teal, ducks and wild pigs to win rave notices from rod-and-gun editors. Spending $2,000,000, Wenner-Gren built a luxurious Lighthouse Club (with appointments in silver) and a well-fitted yacht club. The resort opened last month...