Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly for the Bird. In Long Beach, Calif., Betty-Jo Michael got visitation rights at a predivorce hearing after her husband successfully bid for the custody of their pet parakeet, Pretty Boy, commented: "I figure that if I can keep the bird she'll come back...
...Navy's rocket-belching LSMR, improvised in the middle of World War II, was an efficient, lethal little vessel. As a curtain raiser to amphibious landings, it could briefly match the firepower of a modern cruiser with its close-in salvos of rockets. The enemy on the beach quickly came to respect its sting, but the unhappy crewmen aboard just as quickly discovered that the LSMR was not designed as a pleasure craft. In the calmest seas, it shook like a dog emerging from a bath; in hurricane weather, it performed better, sloughing wildly over the long sea swells...
...tart strength, his hands poked disconsolately into the pockets of his raincoat. His own career as party leader was now in jeopardy. This was the first time since 1931 that Labor had failed to add to its popular vote in an election. "Voting is like the waves on the beach," Attlee philosophized to a TIME correspondent. "They come higher and higher and then there's one that doesn't come as high-but then it is usually followed by one that comes up even higher still." But Clem Attlee's thin voice did not carry conviction. "Differences...
Then old Henry started taking bids for a 535-room hotel, 35 honeymoon cottages (each with private pool), 200 low-budget hotel rooms and 100 cabanas on his new beach site. If and when the government builds H.J. his island, he will rent it from the government and spend another $50 million there for hotels, an aquarium, convention hall and theater. Even then he does not intend really to rest. On the Kona coast 200 miles southeast of Waikiki, Kaiser plans to spend $40 million for hotels, a yacht basin, hillside homes, fishing boats. Said he: "There...
...named Laya Raki, even if the Maoris won't. Despite these novelties, the film very nearly talks itself to death before getting around to the big battle scene where all the adult whites are satisfactorily slaughtered. The film ends with a new boatload of settlers landing on the beach, complete with carpetbags and valises, and looking about them as if wondering which is the way to the desk clerk...