Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bought and sold -the seller getting 55? per lb. for littlenecks, as high as 80? for big quahogs. Past a sandbar where a tourist drowned yesterday clamming in 3 ft. of water. Past the big shingled mansions that trim the shoreline at fashionable Warwick Neck. And so into Narragansett Bay, a body of water variously ravished by long-handled rakes, progress and history...
Just up the bay at Gaspee Point, Rhode Islanders each year burn a vessel in effigy to celebrate the burning, in 1772, of the revenue schooner Gaspee, an early warning about Yankee distaste for King and custom's duties. Last year the rusty old fishing boat Dorchester turned up in the bay with six tons of marijuana hidden aboard, then departed leaving a web of mystery, gangland murder and suicide that narcotics agents have yet to unravel. Westward, the old naval air station at Quonset Point is now the sprawling headquarters for oil-drill teams working the Baltimore Canyon...
...when the waters of Narragansett Bay finally begin lapping over the bubble-topped conning tower of the S 250 at Jacobson's practice site in the lee of Prudence Island, all common sense and lessons learned temporarily flee. The student has just bolted himself in with four screw bolts that clamp the bubble to the conning tower...
...Walvis Bay residents wish the desert could provide them with a living as well. Says Paul Vincent, editor of the local Namib Times: "Think how rich we could be if we could get into the business of exporting sand." As it is, the town's principal source of revenue, fishing, is slowly dying. Production of processed pilchard at Walvis Bay canneries has slumped from 1.5 million tons ten years ago to 45,000 tons now, either because of overfishing or ecological changes in the South Atlantic...
Envisioning its enclave as a potential Hong Kong of Africa, Walvis Bay's town council has repeatedly petitioned the South African government to make the territory a free port. But Pretoria is more concerned with the area's strategic importance. Walvis Bay is the only deep-water port on the 1,000-mile Namibian coast. As a consequence, the worst South African fear is that a SWAPO-dominated government in Windhoek might allow the Soviets to set up a naval base there...