Word: capes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cape Elizabeth...
Dazzling in the Florida sunshine, a slender white missile, 60-odd feet long, rested on its launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center one morning last week. At count down's end, fire flashed at its base, and the monster slowly rose into the air, a pencil of orange flame lengthening behind it. Straight up it rocketed, gathering speed. Several miles up in the bright blue sky, it arched gracefully into a southeastward course, dwindled to a speck and then, 2¼ minutes after rising from its pad, disappeared out over the Atlantic, hurtling on toward...
...search of a style they can call their own, Stallknecht has found hers. And she has done it without stumbling or even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly series...
...wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough for the Navy's 60,000-ton supercarriers. Another job: the first "Texas Tower" radar island, no miles off Cape...
...years ago. He no longer minded the store. But only when he could no longer recall the crowded days of a life nearly a century long did he retire, and then last month, at 92. One morning last week in his home overlooking a lake at Marstons Mills on Cape Cod, Lincoln Filene, suffering from arteriosclerosis, died quietly, the last of an enterprising generation. At the funeral there was no eulogy; he never believed in them...