Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near the scene of the national drag-racing championship, liquor stores were closed on Sunday by state law, but 150 hot-rodders surged through the streets yelling "We want booze." More than 75 state police and sheriff's deputies were called up to control the mob. In the Cape Cod resort towns of Falmouth and Hyannis, 240 summering students were arrested for drunkenness, disorderly conduct and traffic violations...
...doctors who emigrated, the year's net gain was a mere 151. Vacated faculty jobs at South African universities go begging (19 at important Natal University alone), and the reasons for the discrepancy between supply and demand are widely understood. Says Jacobus Petrus Duminy, Vice Chancellor of Cape Town University: "It's as though [the educators] are cooped up in a trailer tied to an engine of fate driven by a force with which they are powerless to communicate...
...white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak and divided; the timing of the elections is felicitous for Verwoerd...
Elegant & Salty. Most informal gathering place for the Kennedy family is the 4.7-acre Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod, where President John Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and their father each have a weathered, roomy summer "cottage." Nerve center of the compound is Father Joe Kennedy's "Big House" overlooking Nantucket Sound, a rambling, shingled, 18-room structure with a three-gabled roof and wide porches that is as New England as a swallowed r. The Big House is both elegant and salty. In an illuminated, glass-paneled display case is Rose Kennedy's collection of more than...
...minutes last week, Cape Canaveral was treated to one of the most spectacular displays of rocketry in its 11-year space-age history. Splashing a white, blue and orange vapor trail across the radiant dawn sky, a 100-ft.-tall Atlas-Agena rocket lifted in stately perfection off the pad, thundered up on a mission that was to carry its payload 685,000 miles into interplanetary space...