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They have been practicing all week to speed up their leg drive and for the first time in many years they have abandoned their characteristic German rigging for the more conventional standard rigging. Ted Nash has also improved the strength of his port side with the addition of Olympian Luther Jones, who while still at Penn, has been stroking the Vesper eight this spring...
...cult. The Lord's Prayer was rewritten. "Our Doc," the revised version went, "who art in the National Palace, hallowed be thy name." He boasted that he was a statesman of the same caliber as Charles de Gaulle and demanded homage from his people, who were trucked into Port-au-Prince to sing and dance his praises in front of the palace. To stir up enthusiasm for himself, he would sometimes ride through the capital in his bulletproof Mercedes 600 limousine and stop to scatter money among the crowds...
...death would set off a political explosion in Haiti. Thus it was a major surprise when the country took the event calmly. At first, only a small group of curious gathered outside the palace fence, and only a few extra police and troops stood guard in Port-au-Prince. By the time of the funeral, the crowds and security forces had grown larger. Nonetheless, the city remained peaceful...
...enough pump-out stations, interstate absurdities would remain. A boatman from New Jersey, which has no such law, is subject to being boarded and charged with an offense while passing through New York waters to Connecticut, which has no pump-out stations. A New Yorker leaving his home port on western Long Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics say, his holding tank fills up and poses...
...granting permanent exemption. The Chrysler Building will soon lose its distinction as the world's tallest tax exemption to the 110-story World Trade Center, now rising, says Balk, "like a tombstone over the tip of downtown Manhattan." The twin towers are being built by the quasi-public Port of New York Authority, which is tax-exempt but will make a token payment for city services...