Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply in the same genial mood, John McLatchie waited for his Florida vacation, composed a letter while listening to the surf at Palm Beach. Then he sent it to Capps with a picture (see cut) to prove that he is not "synthetic...
California's Multimillionaire Howard Hughes got an eviction notice from the City of Long Beach. As of April, Plane Builder Hughes's huge (200-ton) experimental flying boat, the Hercules, 14 years abuilding at an estimated cost of $25 million, will be viewed as a squatter on city real estate. Actually, the Hercules has done nothing but squat since 1947, when in its maiden (and only) test flight, with intrepid Airman Hughes at the controls, it briefly lumbered 70 feet up into the air. If Hughes decides not to fight the eviction, the Hercules will probably be towed...
...knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed: "I'm going to deadstick her down." Then, after a moment of mature consideration, he changed his mind, declared, "No, I ain't," and bailed...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People: "Stevenson uses high-sounding phrases, but they lack content." In Manhattan the New York Post, long a devout supporter of Stevenson, cried in a full-page editorial that his utterances on the discrimination issue had been "inadequate . . . fragmentary and uninspired." At Miami Beach, where the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council was holding its first meeting, other Stevenson followers expressed shocked horror. Obviously shaken, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther said Stevenson was "dead wrong this time." Moaned James Carey, chairman of the civil rights committee: "He wants the nomination, but he's setting...
...Hasty Heart. In Long Beach, Calif., Harriett Isabell Barfoot. 83, filed suit to annul her nine-day marriage to Thomas Barfoot, 83. told the court that her husband proved to be "what is commonly known as a woman chaser...