Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall children had a robust country upbringing. In the winters there was coasting on the slope of the big hill where their house stood, and skating on the pond at the bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored...
Something of Nivola's ever present sense of humor must have come into play the day he was watching his family make patterns with the sand on a Long Island beach. That was when he conceived the idea for his sand-sculpturing technique. Now his most important sculpture is made by modeling details in reverse patterns in wet sand and then filling these molds with concrete or plaster of paris. The result is a kind of bas-relief...
...tide ebbed, the first invading wave of cars whisked along the rim of the sand. Loudspeakers blatted. Whistles skirled. The racket of racing engines woke the town. For the next two weeks the annual speed trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing turned Daytona Beach, Fla. into a motorized madhouse...
...Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club fell on hard times. The Army Air Forces used it for a training center in World...
...just begun. Besides his plans for Boca Raton, he has ideas for a $20 million shopping center south of Miami at Kendall. In January he bought Miami's Metropolitan Bank, and this week he signed a long-term lease on another big property near Delray Beach, where he plans to put up a $1,500,000 hotel. He is also busy developing the island of Eleuthera, 75 miles east of Nassau in the Bahamas. There, Davis, who has five other homes on the mainland, has already built himself a palatial hideaway on a 30,000-acre property, has opened...