Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record: 43,000 ft). Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...
...transportation will be offered to Summer School students for the Rudolf Serkin piano performance at Castle Hill on Saturday night. Buses will leave from Thayer Gate at 5:30 and should arrive at Ipswich around 7:00. Cost of the excursion is $5.00 including a clam supper on the beach and a $2.50 ticket to the performance. Anyone who would rather eat lobster may feel free to pay 75 cents extra and do so. Estimated time of return is midnight...
...Line. In Long Beach, Calif., after being sentenced to five days in jail for damaging telephone equipment, Pipe-Fitter Eugene C. Bennett explained to the judge that he cut his phone wire with a paring knife because "I got sick and tired of hearing my wife talking with her mother for an hour and a half...
Memorizing the Bible was the key to conversion, as Trotman saw it, so he handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what...
...Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts...