Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship is named the S.S. Arco Anchorage, and it leaves at dawn for Long Beach, Calif., carrying 120,000 tons of oil. Outside the harbor's "narrows," a glitter of orange lights signals the impatience of the 800-ft.-long, 71,500-ton Exxon New Orleans, waiting its turn at the spigot. Though they are less than half as big as the Ultra-Large Carriers (ULCCS), both ships are leviathans of 20th century technology: supersized carriers of an increasingly scarce resource. They are also dinosaurs. When the oil is gone, or is replaced as an energy source, these tankers...
...Hermosa Beach, Calif...
Huntington Beach, Calif...
...white bunny coat to the Copley Plaza." Margaret Magie remembers how smoking was considered not only a serious fire hazard but generally unladvlike. "Girls would go over the Andersen bridge to Boston to get around the restrictions on smoking in Cambridge. There were periodic fusses about this. I4CrimsonDavid Beach...
...initial beneficiaries are the bigtime airlines, travel agencies, hotel and motel chains and their restaurants. But as the tourists travel within the U.S., they deal more with small businesses and entrepreneurs: Mom and Pop diners, souvenir shops, camping guides, local gas stations. Foreign spending can be a bonanza. Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, a rococo relic of past prestige, came back from the brink of bankruptcy by becoming a mecca for overseas tourists who still associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built...