Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American public than the forcible return of a defecting Lithuanian sailor to his Soviet ship last month. Simas (short for Simonas) Kudirka sought asylum aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant during a rendezvous-to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights-between the two vessels in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod. The incident resulted in the suspension of Rear Admiral William B. Ellis, commander of the Coast Guard's First District in Boston, his chief of staff, Captain Fletcher Brown, and Vigilant's skipper, Commander Ralph Eustis. TIME Correspondent William Mader has continued probing what happened aboard Vigilant...
SIMON WALKER Rondebosch, Cape Town...
John has been doing his live act only since last summer. Perhaps that is the reason he seems to want to sell himself more than he really has to. He comes on with a long cape looking a bit like Michael J. Pollard impersonating Batman, and gradually sheds down to a star-patterned T shirt, slacks and a Porky Pig button that lights up. Then, kicking away the piano bench, he goes into an old-fashioned rock-'n'-roll finale and plays standing up, kneeling down, even handstanding on the keyboard with feet high...
...November 3, Studds had spent more than $125,000 and had enlisted over 1000 volunteers in his attempt to represent the state's most populous Congressional district, which includes the South Shore suburbs, Cape Cod and New Bedford. The success of his campaign so unnerved Keith, a lackluster former insurance agent whose only distinction is the most conservative record in the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, that he brought in Senator Edward Brooke and HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson to campaign for him, had his aides investigate Studds' past, accused him of lying about his previous jobs, and strongly implied that a Keith...
Studds did not win, though he came much closer than a lot of people expected. His strategy called for him to cut slightly into the Republican majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...