Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make himself known, Hughes has campaigned furiously from Cape May Court House to the Bayonne waterfront. To back Hughes, New Jersey's Democrats have plenty of money-and they intend to spend it. Hughes's campaign expenses will come to $1,000,000 or more. From Washington have come Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg to stump for Hughes, and from Massachusetts came Teddy Kennedy to spread the family charm...
...international crisis were more ordinary diplomatic, political, ceremonial, social, and even parental problems. Leaving the J.C.S. conference on Berlin, Kennedy changed into white tie and tails to preside at a state dinner for Peru's President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (see THE HEMISPHERE). As Hurricane Esther swept toward Cape Cod, he put a call through to his father in Hyannisport, asked if Daughter Caroline and Son John ought to be moved from the summer house to higher ground. At 5 a.m. on Thursday, the President's children, along with six of their cousins, were awakened and driven...
Write & Rewrite. Next day, hurrying to get away for his regular weekend on Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
...great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem...
...body and slimy skin, may well rank as the ugliest creature in animaldom. Sailors hate the toadfish because it croaks so loudly that it confuses sonar signals; fishermen despise it because it is as inedible as the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Piled up on beaches from Cape Cod to Florida, it smells like rotten whale. Yet even mudcolored toadfish can be heroes...