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...Ranh Bay is the new DeLong pier. Three hundred feet by 90 ft., it was towed from South Carolina, arrived Oct. 30, and was in use 45 days later. To anchor it, caissons were sunk 138 ft. into the bay's sandy bottom; an 850-ft.-long causeway from shore to pier was fashioned out of 27,500 cu. yds. of rock that had to be blasted out of a nearby hill. "It was the most spectacular and important project we've had to date," said Colonel Hart. It also was one of the most urgently needed: before...
marines and light equipment behind theoretical enemy lines. Some 100 Skyhawks and Phantoms flew protective cover as hundreds of amphibious craft lunged toward the yellow sand to discharge their troops. A giant causeway, assembled at sea, was towed ashore by launches. Aircraft even took off from portable aluminum runways laid down in the sand by Seabees...
...Yugoslavia has made a remarkable little summer resort out of Sveti Stevan, a 15th century town on a rock outcropping that rises dramatically out of the Adriatic and is connected to the mainland by a causeway that also serves as two splendid beaches. Once a fortress, then a fishing village, then abandoned entirely, it was transformed by the Yugoslav government in 1960 into a town-hotel to attract tourists from Europe and the U.S. The interiors of the old fishermen's houses in the winding streets and tiny flowered squares have been done over as comfortable modern suites with...
Linked by an umbilical causeway to a shadowy mainland. Great Heron Island is the summer nesting place of a memorable colony of rare social birds. It swims in a body of water carefully left vague by the author but which readers will have no trouble at all locating - due south of O'Hara Point, due east of Marquand
With the Murchison brothers of Texas and others, he is building a 2,000-acre island-city off St. Petersburg, a dazzling tropical paradise connected by causeway with the mainland. He is also investing in a $4,500,000 "yachtel" called Porto-O-Call. Its restaurant will seat 1,300 people -but most of them will be up dancing to the music of Guy Lombardo...