Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pitkin says city officials and developers spent much of the past three years searching for prospective tenants. Their efforts paid off when a Cape Cod developer agreed to lease the building and find businesses to fill it, he says...
...able to concentrate on what we do best," says Ring, whose family has also owned a grocery store on Cape Cod on since...
...NORMAN THAGARD HAD GONE into space four times before, but this mission was like none of his past adventures. Instead of preparing for launch on the balmy shores of Cape Canaveral, the Florida native faced the 18[degrees]F chill of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When he chatted with crew mates, he spoke the language not of Neil Armstrong but of Yuri Gagarin. And when he tried to follow the American astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady...
...tale of the secret negotiations began with a coincidence: Winnie Mandela, on her way to see her husband, who was in a hospital recovering from prostate surgery, happened to be on the same flight to Cape Town in 1985 as Kobie Coetsee, then South Africa's Justice Minister. She boldly marched up to the plane's first-class section and engaged the Justice Minister in conversation. The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu, unannounced visit to the world's most famous political prisoner. Mandela, dressed only in his hospital gown, greeted Coetsee not as his jailer-which he technically...
...African National Congress and the government, the back-channel communications between Mandela and the a.n.c. in exile, the trepidation of Botha and the apparent transformation of his successor, De Klerk-possesses the drama and intrigue of a diplomatic whodunit. Sparks uncovers fresh details about Mandela's secret outings around Cape Town with his jailers (one of whom covertly brought the grandfatherly prisoner home to meet his two small children), the vital role of Mandela's courtly lawyer, George Bizos, and the courageous actions of the wily Mac Maharaj-Mandela's former Robben Island mate and now Minister of Transportation...