Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight ships, including the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, there. The Russian presence is expected to increase even more with the reopening of the Suez Canal. Then the Soviet supply line, from its Black Sea bases to the Straits of Malacca, will shrink from 11,000 miles around the Cape of Good Hope to 2,200 miles through the canal...
...long after he finished Harvard Law School, James Draper St. Clair made his reputation as a superbly skilled trial lawyer in a 1954 dispute-over cranberries. His client, Cape Cod Food Products, Inc., sued the National Cranberry Association, now Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., charging attempted monopoly. Typically, St. Clair not only immersed himself in the legal issues but also diligently learned everything about cranberries, including how weather and flooding affect them. In court he meticulously demolished the association's case. St. Clair won treble damages of $525,000 for his client and rare praise in court from Judge Charles...
...kind in naval history-wound up in a banging, clanging draw, and in May 1862 the Merrimack was scuttled to keep it from falling into the hands of the advancing Union forces. The Monitor met a different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., taking 16 members of her 63-man crew down with her. The precise spot where the ship-with her eight layers of 1-in. iron plates and two 111n. guns in a revolving turret-went down remained a mystery...
...team of oceanographers has located the Monitor in a storm-swept spot 15 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, at a murky depth of 220 ft. Using sonar equipment to locate the site and an underwater television camera to photograph the ship's remains, the team has pieced together portions of video tape to confirm that the Monitor's broken hull lies upside down in the water, partly buried under 3½ ft. of sediment. But the ruins of the ship are so fragile that attempts to lift them from the ocean depths would probably cause the 112 year...
YOUNGEST STREAKER: A three-month old girl who with her mother formed a double entry in a Streaking Day contest in Massachusetts sponsored by a Cape Cod radio station...