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Gradually they became sophisticates in international finance. For one deal, says Steinberg, they siphoned money through a yacht broker in Miami to a bank in the Caymans, thence to Hong Kong, and ultimately to Thailand. Later Steinberg dispatched cash and trusted aides to start a multimillion-dollar agricultural operation in Kenya. The crop: marijuana...
...Coolidge Corner, Lina Wert-mueller's Swept Away makes you wonder if part of the avant-garde hasn't decided it is too cool for feminism. A northern Italian bitch-goddess (Mariangela Melato) teases and insults a poor, swarthy crew member (Giancarlo Giannini) on her husband's yacht, and when the two of them find themselves marooned on an uninhabited island everything turns upside down. Giannini turns his former oppressor into his concubine/serf and, as in Seven Beauties, shows he can do more with his eyes than anyone this side of Marty Feldman. There is a kind of love...
This President is not a dedicated collector. He owns one small Grandma Moses painting, one Charles Russell bronze statue of a boxer (a gift) and several contemporary western artworks. His modest gun collection came from gifts. He has no yacht-just a 12-ft. canoe, the Truluv. His stereo rig would be spurned by the average twelve-year-old. The Corum $20-gold-piece watch he sports is a ten-year-old gift from friends. A couple of years ago, he and Nancy made a pact for a mutual Christmas gift, a power log splitter...
Founded in 1884 on the Kennebec River, a dozen miles from Popham, where in 1607 the first ship was built by European settlers in the New World, the Iron Works constructed steamers, tugs, trawlers, J.P. Morgan's famous yacht (the one no one could afford if he had to ask how much it cost) and destroyers for the Navy in both world wars. From Pearl Harbor to V-J day, BIW turned out 82 destroyers, vs. 63 for Japan's entire shipbuilding industry. Only eight vessels were lost in combat, and among Navy men "Bath-built" came...
...doors, and there were plans for turning the yard into a factory for making paper pie plates. In 1927, William S. ("Pete") Newell, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an old-stock Yankee, bought BIW at auction and began building any kind of ship he could: yachts, Coast Guard cutters, fishing boats, then Navy vessels as World War II approached. Employment swelled to more than 12,000 during the war, but then plunged after the American victory at sea, falling to 350 in 1947. It picked up, though, as the company again turned to yacht building...