Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of the third day out, the fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa...
...Perky Warren? To last week's off-Broadway audience he was only a nice old Canadian eccentric who likes people, but Toronto's Bay Street financiers know him as the 62-year-old onetime president of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd., a latex prince descended from some of the red, white and bluest blood in North America; e.g., Priscilla Mullins' John Alden, Connecticut's Revolutionary Governor Jonathan Trumbull. At home in Toronto, his closest companions are his 13-year-old beagle Tobey and his solicitors, Ricketts, Farley & Lowndes...
Orange Bowl Regatta (CBS, 2-3:30 p.m.). Every sort of powerboat will compete in races on Miami's Biscayne Bay, some in the International Grand Prix for the Baker Palladium Trophy. Also water skiing...
...Corsica came up on the radar screen of the President's Boeing jet, some 5½ hours out of a refueling stop at Goose Bay, the President's pilot got a discouraging report. Not only was Rome getting the rain promised on his long-range forecast, but the storm was worse than expected. Minutes later Colonel William Draper was cautiously circling Rome's Ciampino Airport. Then, assured of a minimum ceiling, he made his instrument approach, splashed to a smooth landing, and pulled up just twelve minutes behind schedule in front of a cluster of Italian officialdom...
...swank Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin...