Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outwardly, Lucy Freeman seemed to have almost everything a girl could ask. Daughter of a prosperous New York City lawyer, she had grown up in a fine Westchester house near Long Island Sound, where she helped run her father's cabin cruiser. She went to good schools, got good marks, did well in sports, had plenty of dates."She wanted to be a journalist, and soon made the staff of the Times. At 29, she was still unmarried but that, she rationalized, was because her standards were especially high...
...equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken by an officer in the design of cabin and cockpit enclosures section, after he gets authorization from the budget section to pay for a modification. Six months after the original complaint, the squadron can hope to get windshield wipers that work...
...Then we got hit in the tail. We lost cabin pressure. Instruments started reading zero. All the time, this battle was going south. I think the MIGs finally broke off the attack at Pyongyang...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...
...little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than 300 net tons) to go through the Panama Canal since it was opened for business 37 years...