Word: bermudas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others spent up to 32 hours in lumbering C124 Globemasters that wheezed along the southern route at 270 m.p.h., stopping to refuel at Bermuda and the Azores...
Whatever its political implications, Big Lift was undeniably one whale of a show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers...
...possibility that the Endeavour will enter the Lisbon-Bermuda transatlantic race is strong, according to Millar. If the Endeavour does enter she will be competing against an international Sotilla of training vessels. Presumably included among these would be American entries from the Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Academy...
...Dallas air, Nicklaus' drives almost soared out of sight; the day before the tournament started, he won a driving contest and set a P.G.A. record by booming a ball 341 yds. off the tee. He blasted boldly out of the dry, soft traps, handled the wiry Bermuda rough with ease. But in the end it was Nicklaus' putting that won for him. Trailing Australia's Crampton by three strokes with 18 holes to play, Nicklaus ran in an 18-ft. putt for an eagle on the first hole; he sank a 12-footer for a birdie...
...lemon and lime trees in Panama; now he is carving out a port near the plantation, intends to freeze and can the juice right on board one of his ships. All these interests have naturally steered him into real estate, and he has property holdings from mid-Manhattan to Bermuda, where he is building a new hotel...