Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bay State put it to the test...
Today the Glomar Explorer sits idle in Suisun Bay, Calif., near San Francisco. Had its cover not been blown, the ship would have been used for recovering other seabed prizes like missile re-entry vehicles and underwater listening devices. Instead, the Government has put the vessel up for sale. Last week the National Science Foundation said it would study the possibility of using the ship for deep-sea research. The General Services Administration has also offered to lease the ship to firms interested in using it to mine minerals in the ocean-precisely what the Glomar Explorer was supposed...
...Dutch diplomat, Van Haefton lived in Europe, Asia and Africa before entering the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. After graduating, he went into real estate in the Bay Area. Dealing in property appealed to him, but he soon decided that "selling houses in San Francisco was no fun." So he broadened his view to encompass the world and opened his esoteric firm...
...journal of ideas, The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly (founded in 1865). The magazine has always been slightly to the left of American journalism, and often out in front. The Nation blew the whistle five months before the event on CIA preparations for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion-to little avail-and published the first article on automobile safety by a young lawyer named Ralph Nader. Publisher James J. Storrow Jr., who has owned the magazine since 1965, put it on the block early this year, after the retirement of longtime Editor Carey McWilliams...
...drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district next to Markey's, and State Representative Barney Frank '62, a Democrat from the Back Bay who used to work for Harrington...