Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holiday. It was Ferragosto Day (Aug. 15), Italy's best loved and most ancient annual holiday,* and from the teeming Eternal City (pop. 1,600,000) a million Romans decamped to their seaside villas and to public picnic grounds in the Abruzzi Mountains or at war-famed Anzio Beach. Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel Gandolfo. Pope Pius...
After twelve weeks of training, Peter Forrestal, 21, son of the late Secretary of Defense, was sworn in as an ensign at the United States Naval Station, Long Beach, Calif...
...gulls. I found the object was a brown bottle . . . The cork . . . crumpled in my fingers. How the note kept dry, nobody can understand. It must have been because you mentioned God's name on it, and He brought it to safe harbor . . . I sat there on the beach and read...
...Ridder family, which bought the morning and evening papers in San Jose, Calif, only two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 4), last week purchased two more California dailies. For an undisclosed amount, the Ridders took over Long Beach's morning Independent (circ. 48,100) and evening Press-Telegram (95,823). The Ridders now have twelve dailies...
Submarine!, by Edward L. Beach. The dramatic underside of the Navy's war in the Pacific, as told by a combat submariner (TIME, June...