Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle to Revere Beach every morning...
...forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...
...addition to controlling Kwajalein, Johnston, Midway and Wake islands, the military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...
...islands in the Pacific, Ponape, located in the Carolines, comes closest to perfection. Its people are gentle; the jungle is unscarred. Eight years ago, Bob Arthur, an industrial designer who developed the electric carving knife, sold his house in Laguna Beach, Calif., and began looking for a better way of life. Today his Village Hotel reflects the fantasy of every '60s dropout. Papaya, mango, avocado and coconut trees grow dense and wild around the hotel's thatched bungalows, each of which has a wrap-around view of the lagoon. Every evening Arthur, his wife Patti and their four...
DIED. John D. MacArthur, 80, America's next-to-last known billionaire (only Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, now remains); of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a dirt farmer and wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft...