Word: acadia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three types of barge-carrying ships are being developed. The Acadia Forest, the first of 13 LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessels now being built at a cost of about $21.5 million each, is due to be put into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
Tonight's opponent is Dalhousie College, and if everything goes well today, the Crimson will play the winner of a clash between Acadia and St. Mary's in the finals Saturday night. American teams have fared very well in this tournament in the past, and two years ago M.I.T. was victorious...
Deadly Vassar Girls. Kingman spent his summers sailing off Martha's Vineyard, became so skilled that in 1935 and 1937 he scored clean sweeps to win the Prince of Wales Cup in "Acadia"-class international competition in Nova Scotia. He is still an enthusiastic boat man who, notes a friend, "minimizes his tacks by coming closer to the white water than other sailors will" and is co-owner of a 30-ft. ketch, Auriga, with Williams President John Sawyer. Brewster sees a link between sailing and running a university, contends wryly that "there is always the infinite capacity...
...Wilderness Bill of Rights; Little, Brown ($5.95). *Who donated much of the land for Maine's Acadia National Park, a 45,000-acre preserve near Bar Harbor
...Maine, campers poured into Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island and swept over 31,000 acres of mountain, fresh-water pond, deep woods and seashore. At Rangeley Lake in the same state, the campers took nature walks between classes at the camping school, where they learned how to keep a campfire from turning into a disaster (dig a hole for the fire, line the rim with rocks; before leaving it, douse it with water and sand and stir thoroughly until it is cool enough to be sifted by hand). In Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, the streams rippled...