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...urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began chasing Rig-n-Tom. The intruder veered away, however, when Loberg put his yacht under the lee of a friendly sailboat...
...Like a sailboat tossing about in a wild sea, the government's activities in the economy under capitalism have bounced from one extreme position to another. For more than a century the state had very little or no role in the overall running of the nation's business affairs. When the government did intervene, it was usually on the side of corporations, with such aid as the 19th century land grants to help the railroads build their steel path across the country. During the past generation, however, the state has become the often overpowering major-domo of the economy...
Rather possesses few of the trappings that are supposed to accompany celebrity and wealth. He has no sailboat, summer place, city town house or even a car. He keeps himself too busy to use them. Home is a comfortable six-room co-op apartment on Manhattan's East Side, furnished in a combination of modern and Early American styles. Daughter Robin, 21, attends Tufts University, where she is captain of the girls' basketball team; Son Danjack, 19, is a student at Columbia and frequently comes downtown to meet his father for lunch. Rather's schedule...
...seconds as they shoot through the foam into calm water beyond. Indeed, wind-surfers can do anything surfers or sailors can on their vessels, almost. Says Craig Roberton of Clearwater: "This sport has only one flaw. There's no way to hold onto a beer on a sailboat like that...
...career Tom Conti has been called the British Dustin Hoffman. He looks so much like Hoff man that he once fooled even himself. "I did a film a couple of years ago," he says, "and there was a bit in which I was lying upside down, unconscious in a sailboat. The shot came up later on when I was watching the rushes and I thought. 'God! That's Dustin Hoffman!' " Conti also finds himself in odd positions in Whose Life Is It Any way?, but not for a second does the audience doubt whom it is seeing. The play belongs...