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...logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and Son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood...
...indictment of quite a different kind of figure. Long the reputed godfather of organized crime along the Gulf Coast, Carlos Marcello, 70, is suspected of running an empire whose illegal gambling operations alone reportedly grossed more than $500 million annually in the 1960s. Except for a six-month prison term in 1970 for slugging an FBI agent, Marcello has successfully dodged federal prosecution and deportation for decades. Today the Marcello domain includes hotels and motels, oil holdings, a produce company, and a 6,000-acre tract of land in suburban New Orleans worth an esti mated $60 million...
With dramatic suddenness, America's interest-rate fever broke last week. The bench-mark prime rate, the interest that banks charge their best corporate customers, dropped from 20% only four weeks ago to 17%. The popular $10,000 six-month money-market certificates, which carried Golcondan interest payoffs of 15.7% only six weeks ago, were offering a mere 9.5%. Even mortgage rates took a tumble. California's Home Savings & Loan, the nation's largest thrift institution, dropped its home lending rate from 17.5% to 12.75%. Said Irwin Kellner, chief economist at New York's Manufacturers Hanover...
...some ways Iowa is the nerve center of writing reform and the source of the renaissance of clear collegiate prose. For the second year in a row, Iowa is running a six-month course for directors of freshman English programs from colleges all over the country, among them Dartmouth, Hollins and the Air Force Academy. The professors not only study writing and how to teach it, they write papers and are constantly subjected to criticism. One assignment this year: build a homemade anemometer to measure wind, then write a clear and concise report about how it works...
Such scenes open a little trap door at the base of the brain. From that ancient root cellar they summon up dark, flapping fantasies of revenge. During the six-month imprisonment of their hostages, Americans have on the whole reacted with a surprising forbearance toward the Iranians. But beneath the surface they have marinated in an odd, atavistic cross-cultural rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming...