Word: cadiz
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...minutes, hovering and circling over the sea, French navy helicopters dropped load after load of depth charges. They were striking back at a very real enemy, the wreck of the American-owned supertanker Amoco Cadiz, which had leaked oil for two weeks after history's biggest spill...
...miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther to the east as well. By any measure, the spill was the biggest of all time and perhaps the most devastating. At week's end it appeared that most of the Amoco Cadiz's 220,000 tons of crude oil-twice the amount released by the infamous Torrey Canyon eleven years ago-would ooze from the American-owned supertanker, which lay broken in two after going aground off the storm-tossed Brittany peninsula...
...best tests of golf in Spain are Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Sotogrande in Cadiz. Both were designed by Robert Trent Jones along the Costa del Sol. Angel migual is the pro at Nueva Andalucia, which played host to the World Cup in 1973 when Nicklaus and Johnny Miller won. Vik shot a 70 the first time he played this course just next to a bullring and the Sierra Blanca mountains...
...triumph, for to have dented the news with a non-disaster item for so prolonged a time during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
...dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than the domestic wrangling and political pettifogging that make up most of the film. Producer Hal Wallis thriftily restages the battle of Cadiz largely by using footage from some old swashbuckler like Captain Horatio Hornblower. Lord Nelson meets his end during a bombardment of old film clips...