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Finally, the triangle is no more prone to disappearances than other busy ocean regions. In fact, a Navy spokesman notes, "many, many more disappearances" have occurred over the years in the heavily traveled Sable triangle, bounded by Sable Island (off Nova Scotia), the Azores and Iceland. His challenge to Charles Berlitz: "Why not a book on the Sable triangle...
...selling dreams of kingdoms," says Real Estate Salesman Bob Douglas, 34, of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, who claims to have sold millions of dollars worth of rocky isles. Nor is there any likelihood of an immediate island shortage. There are an estimated 1 million outcroppings off North American shores alone, plus many more thousands of fresh-water isles from the lower St. Lawrence River to the westerly straits of Lake Huron...
...fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...
...first and lifted off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field even before the weather turned. The Spirit was so weighted with fuel that he cleared the telephone lines at the end of the runway by only 20 feet. His route took him up through New England, over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, past the green southern tips of Ireland and England, and finally over the Channel to France...
...steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny, Premier Kosygin and Party Leader Brezhnev, as well as Chicago's Mayor Daley, Senator William Fulbright and Sir Julian Huxley. Turning...