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...named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. Fuentes met Hemingway in 1928, and helmed the author's yacht Pilar for nearly three decades. Fuentes inherited the boat after Hemingway's death in 1961, and chose to donate it to his native country, where it is displayed outside Hemingway's former home. CLOSED. THE FANTASTICKS, the world's longest-running musical; in New York City. Loosely adapted from...
...group, these friends from Sands Point, N.Y. They had moved to the exclusive Long Island community in the late 1940s and early '50s. The husbands commuted to Manhattan; the wives raised the children, did volunteer work, played golf and tennis, and met every Friday for lunch at the Manhasset Yacht Club. They spent 40 New Year's Eves together. And then, about two years ago, when most were in their 80s, they all sold their houses and retired...
...Sloops to Conquer Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
DIED. SIR PETER BLAKE, 53, yachtsman and explorer who led New Zealand to America's Cup championships in 1995 and 2000; when masked pirates came aboard his moored yacht and shot him as he tried to prevent the robbery; at the mouth of the Amazon River, near Macapa. Blake had been in Brazil for two months monitoring the effects of global warming and pollution...
...DIED. PETER BLAKE, 53, a two-time America's Cup winner and New Zealand sailing hero, shot by masked pirates who raided his 40-m yacht on the Amazon; near Macapa, Brazil. A U.N. goodwill ambassador, Blake was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution. He won the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994 for sailing a catamaran nonstop around the globe in record time. DIED. JUAN JOSE ARREOLA, 83, a fiercely nationalist Mexican author who wrote 16 books of short stories and won Mexico's distinguished National Linguistics and Literature Prize in 1976; in Mexico City. Arreola...