Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside football, school and beautiful girls, Steiner's big interest is sailing. Currently he takes an Independent Study with two other undergraduates in astronomy for navigational purposes. This involves long hours at the Harvard Observatory and field trips to Cape...
...district also includes Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...
Crowhurst had embarked on a passage that he was largely unequipped to complete-morally or materially. When, three weeks out of Teignmouth, he realized that his leaky boat would never weather the full voyage around Cape Horn, he had too much of himself and his fortune invested in the project to return, and was gradually forced into fraud. He sailed slowly through the deserted South Atlantic, doctoring his log and dispatching radio messages of his progress round the world...
...states argue that their claims to the land precede the Union itself. King James I, according to the states, not only granted a land charter to the Virginia Company in 1606 but gave it rights up to 100 miles to sea from what is now Eastport, Me., to Cape Fear, N.C. Attorneys contend that King William was equally generous with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, granting sea as well as land rights to the colonists. The Government's answer is that such rights passed to the national government rather than the states once the Federal Union was formed...
...stories behind the trends and statistics convey a feel of hard times. Pete Carnes, 35, a Broomfield, Colo., draftsman, has just lost his third job in 14 months. After eleven years of steady work for Chrysler Corp., he was laid off by the company's space division at Cape Kennedy in June 1969. He sold his Florida house at a $2,000 loss and disposed of some Chrysler stock, Government bonds and a small boat to finance a move to Colorado. He was hired by a research firm, but that job lasted only six months. After six weeks...