Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bargain Hunters: The Breakers, Palm Beach's answer to Rome's Villa Medici, offers doubles in the off season at $24 a day (winter price...
...microbopper parable out of Oliver Twist. There on the Queen Mary, docked at Long Beach, Calif., was little Lena Zavaroni, 10, the Scottish youngster with the big Garland voice who topped the Common Market charts in 1973 with her recording of Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. As she gyrated with prepubescent salaciousness at the end of a U.S. promotion tour, her managers Phil and Dorothy Solomon looked on with satisfaction. "Our biggest problem in England," said Phil, "is the antiquated work laws for children. Why, Lena can only give 40 performances a year." Noting that...
...both sides of the Atlantic last week, old comrades peered across the decades at the magic, terrible day 30 years before when the Allied armies invaded Normandy. Omar Bradley, one of D-day's last surviving great generals, attended ceremonies on Utah Beach and paid homage "to all who sacrificed where only God could witness their charity to their fellow man." Hugh Polley then a Candain sergeant major, recalled being wounded three times. "Don't ask why I went back to the fight. I don't know myself. I landed in the first wave...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...
...first two days of the 20-race, three-day regatta were sailed in three to five knot winds, which gave a large advantage to sailors with local knowledge. Both of Princeton's two skippers hail from the Newport Beach area and, indeed, the regatta headquarters was established on the lawn of one of the Princeton women's home...