Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johno Jackson's isolated plush-primitive Kona Village, three months old. Jackson is a World War II P-51 pilot and California oil millionaire who delights in spinning tales of ancient Hawaii for his guests, offers them skin diving, sunfish sailing, and trips in his Jeep across the cinder beds and lava fields to explore ancient native burial caves. In the sleepy village of Kailua-Kona, close to some of the most exciting fishing grounds of the world (bonefish, blue marlin, Ahi and the jack crevalle), the venerable Kona Inn and the newer (1960) King Kamehameha are being joined...
...Gerard Kuiper, one of the world's leading lunar experts, Orbiter's photograph seemed to confirm his theory that the 1,000-ft.-high mountains in the center of Copernicus were partially formed by volcanic activity. Scattered over their slopes, he says, are humps similar to the cinder cones found on major terrestrial volcanoes. The picture also clearly shows that the floor of the crater is remarkably flat. To Kuiper, this indicates that the subsurface was once in a fluid or plastic state, and that it solidified, causing the crater floor to level...
When the earth was a burnt-out cinder...
Speaking of the extremes a team will go to win, he cited the "two World Series of 1965" one in Los Angeles with a cinder-block infield, enabling ground balls to get through and the Dodgers' speedy runners to make use of their talent, and one in. Minnesota with a sandy, sloping infield which slows runners and ruins good bunts...
...grisly experience. The view of course is fine if you're lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...