Word: shark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mobil has to wait at least 30 days before it can begin to acquire any more shares of U.S. Steel. But although Mobil's latest shot seems likely to fail, no one is underestimating the oil company's resourcefulness. Said one industry analyst: "Mobil is like the shark in Jaws. You never know where it's going to pop up." -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Frederick Ungeheuer/New York and Paul A. Witteman/Detroit
Dunn recently went beyond his depth, though, while trying to help a 7-ft.-long shark at San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium. The shark, a creature of the lightless deep, was in pain near the surface. Dunn tried a pair of colored contacts that did not help, and the fish died between fittings. But Dunn still has the lenses and is hoping to find another shark...
...father's floundering dress-making company. After a disastrous first day on the job, his father (Jack Warden) tells him he needs to "get laid," which he promptly does, by Lira. The only trouble is that Lira is married to Mr. Eddie (Richard Kiel), a mean and monstrous loan shark who takes over Fine Fashions. The predictable mayhem ensues, during which young Fine learns how to "be a man," so that by the end of the film he is suave, confident and married, and heard uttering such understatements as "This has been a tremendous growth experience...
...began an obsession that ended last week when a ship's rusty safe was consigned to the shark tank of the New York Aquarium. Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1956, only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through...
...Gimbel has remained an intrepid gentleman adventurer: swimming under Antarctic ice, exploring remote Andean ranges, filming the great white shark. In 1976 he and his wife Elga Andersen, a former German actress, produced a documentary on the Andrea Doria. Last July they set out to make another, backed by the latest in underwater technology...