Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederic N. Home Virginia Beach...
...crude in Prudhoe Bay is owned by Standard Oil of Ohio, in partnership with British Petroleum. It is scheduled to be shipped by tanker from Valdez to California. But Cleveland-based Sohio has no marketing outlets on the West Coast; it wants to unload its oil at Long Beach, Calif., and move it to its territory in the Midwest through a 200-mile pipeline to be built across southern California and existing natural gas lines running through Texas. But unloading at Long Beach, protests Chairman A. Thomas Quinn of California's powerful air resources board, could daily release more...
...bevy of ducks and a beach ball were more suited for Saturday's weather than the Harvard and Cornell booters and the black and white sphere they played with...
...Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system. When the big snooze hits, the big plane alights on a watery sand bar. "There's nothin' new about 'em," says Stewart of such disaster dramas. "Been the same since...
...reads like one repeating tableau of purple waves, elms falling, houses collapsing, corpses in shoes and socks-all other clothes having literally blown off. Only the very sturdy and the very fragile seemed to survive, like the Sandwich glass and blue china dug up later on one New England beach...