Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...menu featured California grapes and orange julius drinks. Slides of the Golden Gate and of Big Sur flashed on a screen in the middle of the dining hall, and from the speakers blared, who else?, the Beach Boys. The old Harvard dark wood-panelled dining hall walls were plastered with airline odes to the joys...
LOOK AT THE cover of this album. Two slightly out of focus ethereal looking women (or are they nymphs?) with big, liquid eyes, and fluffy angel hair peer out. They come straight off those cards from the Coop that show young girls in white gauzy dresses, strolling on the beach, holding white conch shells to their ears. Your grandmother would love a photo of you just like this...
...American record in the 1000-yd. freestyle, establish four University records, win three individual events (all in record time) at Eastern to finish as the meet's high point scorer, and cap it all off by making the finals in three events at NCAA's in Long Beach--one of them a classic head-to-head bout with All-World UCLA freshman Brian Goodell in the 1650-yd. free, which Hackett just barely lost...
...certain amount of the Baldrige Vanderbilt is so obvious that it amounts to instructing people when to come in out of the rain. A section on going to the beach, for example, solemnly counsels the reader to take along food and drinks, "sun protection devices" and towels. When swimming one should never wave at someone on the shore "because the lifeguards may think you are calling for help and spring into action." Baldrige laughingly admits that much of this advice is elementary, but, "of course, it is possible that people might come to the ocean from Nebraska [Baldrige's home...
DIED. Clifford F. Hood, 84, president of U.S. Steel from 1953 to 1959; in Palm Beach, Fla. Starting as a clerk in U.S. Steel-owned American Steel & Wire Co. in 1917, Hood served as that firm's president for twelve years (1938-49) before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...