Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them. Since the strike began, Ensenada crews have loaded or unloaded 64 ships, more than they normally see in a year. Much of the cargo is simply moved to vacant lots until it can be hauled to the U.S. Some 3,700 Volkswagens sit bumper to bumper atop a cliff overlooking the sea. Though all manual labor must be performed by Mexicans-a union rule that now helps Ensenadans earn a total of $40,000 a day-U.S. firms have sent dozens of representatives to oversee the operation. Says Captain D.W. Cowan of Prudential-Grace Lines' San Francisco...
...passed directly under the high cliff and stood into the middle of the bay, from whence we could see small bays, making up into the interior, on every side: large and beautifully wooded islands; and the mouths of several small rivers. If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the center of its prosperity...
Died. Henry D. Haynes, 51, better known as Homer, the guitar-strumming, tobacco-chewing half of Homer and Jethro; of a heart attack; in Lansing, Ill. "Our first records were received with mixed emotions, like watching your mother-in-law drive your new Cadillac over a cliff," quipped Henry Haynes and Kenneth ("Jethro") Burns, the two Tennessee hillbillies who became a permanent team in 1936. Their deadpan delivery of such ditties as How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? soon caught on, and the drawling duo sold millions of records...
Trouble came to tiny Cliff Island, Me., on the second Tuesday in September last year. Residents of the wooded rock in Casco Bay were saddened but not surprised to hear what happened when Johanna von Tiling took attendance in the one-room schoolhouse that has nestled in the thick maples and spruce for 100 years. She counted seven students. A Maine law designed to discourage inefficient small schools requires a minimum of eight for a school to stay open...
Killina Blow. Cliff Island could not afford to lose Seymour, or Ben O'Reilly Jr., who plows the heavy winter snows, or Bunk MacVane, Bub Anderson and Bruce Dyer, lobstermen all. Four hundred winter people lived on the island 70 years ago, but residents have been moving to the mainland and its more varied jobs for years. An exodus of the remaining young families would be the killing blow. The post office, the general store, the snow plow and even the daily ferry would stop. The island, still populated by descendants of its 17th century settlers, would become...