Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Beach, Miss...
...subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians take him over. After lolling on the beach soaking up the shrewd master's useful counsel on the dangerous game that 66-year-old Tito has played with eminent success, President Nasser last week boarded ex-King Farouk's old yacht for a slow voyage home...
...Virginia Beach, Va. was once a quiet seaside town where the middling rich of Princess Anne County and nearby Norfolk went to bathe and sun. But 25 years back, the quiet town was invaded. Garish clubs sprang up along the beach, and gambling tables ran far into the night, presided over by burly, heavy-set men in sharp suits and loud ties. The town's old inhabitants protested, but the local Kellam political machine blandly looked the other way. Six years ago one scrappy, stubborn real-estate man named Joseph Willcox Dunn finally got so mad that he started...
Week after week Editor Dunn rammed home his message: the Kellams were letting corruption fester in Princess Anne County. He ran a regular ''Clubs and the Law'' column that named racketeers and pinpointed the clubs they visited. When the machine-controlled Virginia Beach Sun-News reported a gathering of racketeers, politicians and their ladies as a social item, Dunn printed a guest list, helpfully followed each racketeer's name with his criminal record. Says Dunn: ''I put their hoodlum rats around the necks of the politicians and in their pockets...
...blows of his own. When the machine's Sun-News called him a liar, Dunn sued for libel, won a verdict (still under appeal) of $65,000-largest in the state's history. And though the Kellams stayed in power, the gamblers gradually began to leave Virginia Beach...