Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinai Peninsula had not yet settled over the wreckage of Arab war machines in 1967 when Israel and Egypt became locked in another fevered contest. Since the Suez Canal was closed indefinitely by the Six-Day War, forcing oil tankers to make the long and costly journey around the Cape of Good Hope, both countries hastily revived plans to build pipelines. These lines were intended to transmit Middle East oil more quickly and cheaply to the Mediterranean for shipment to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Last week Egypt's plans were still on the drawing board...
Hunters of the Ernest Hemingway persuasion, of course, can still arrange an old-fashioned "Big Five" (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo) trophy hunt, provided they have the patience and the price. East Africa's top white hunters are so busy that they are already taking advance reservations for 1973. Most shooting safaris last a minimum of 21 days, and they are exorbitantly expensive. In Kenya, the daily charge per person for four clients with two professional hunters is $422. That fee does not include clothing, game licenses ($300 for a single rhino, plus an extra...
...girl friends." The line is so successful that Bonsack has exported it to the U.S., opening department-store bathing boutiques at Woodward & Lothrop in Washington, D.C., John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago and Halle Brothers in Cleveland. The bridal suite at the Springbok Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, features a Sagittarius as its prime attraction, and others are on order for hotels in France, Germany and Kuwait...
...from their laboratory, the slower it seemed to run in relation to a similar clock that was left behind. Pondering the strange "distance effect," they decided to compare the performance of two atomic clocks at separate, fixed locations over an extended period of time. They stationed one clock at Cape Fear, N.C.; their other instrument was a master timepiece at the Naval Research lab in Washington. For six months, they measured the time that elapsed between the tick of the master clock and the corresponding tick of the Cape Fear clock (which was transmitted to Washington by radio). Immediately after...
When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened in 1964, it was widely described as an engineering marvel and a surefire tourist attraction. Its 17½ miles of open spans and underwater tunnels connect Virginia's Cape Charles with the Norfolk area, uncorking what had been a major traffic bottleneck between New York and Florida. The 25-minute scenic crossing costs $4 for car and driver, plus 85? for each passenger-just pennies more than the old 90-minute ferry fare of $3.85 for car and driver. Yet traffic on the world's longest bridge-tunnel has been only...