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...they have trouble with bugs-bees as big as rhinos. And that same afternoon the island is invaded by pirates-just regular-size pirates. At the height of the battle, the pirate ship blows up and sinks. How come? Moments later, a weird figure comes gliding through the surf. It's a fish. It's a sub. It's-Captain Nemo! And just where has Captain Nemo been hiding all this time? In his submarine, the Nautilus. And where is the Nautilus? In a volcano. Any further questions...
...Wall Street's professionals had only an imperfect notion of what they were buying into. And to the ordinary investor Unilever presents an even hazier image. Few U.S. housewives realize that they are fattening Unilever's coffers when they bring home Lux, Lifebuoy. Handy Andy, Rinso or Surf soaps, Imperial or Good Luck margarines, Spry shortening, Pepsodent toothpaste, Lipton's tea and soups, or Wishbone salad dressing...
Behind him, the surf broke with the flawless rhythm of a metronome, a whispering complement to the cellist's own compelling beat. "Now we are hearing two eternal sounds." marveled Violinist Isaac Stern, "the ocean surf and great music." A rapt audience enthusiastically agreed. Caesarea's centuries-old silence had been broken by beauty...
...nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shemara. In the warm Mediterranean darkness, the surf pounded restlessly against the rocky Riviera coast. and the Riviera's storied second-story men went silently to work...
After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...