Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate at Harvard almost thirty years ago. "The sweater still fits," he admits, "but I would hesitate to display the numerals. (Class of 1930). Coming from Brockton High School, "where everybody knew everybody," Latham entered the cold, impersonal atmosphere of Harvard during the lingering days of the Gold Coast...
...questions of time and finance, some students have asked about the safety of a light plane. "Flying yourself," answers D'Costa, "is certainly far safer than driving in Boston or taking a nocturnal walk beside the Charles." The Club's safety record has been excellent: a professional company, East Coast Aviation, regularly services the plane; no one is allowed to take off unless weather conditions are judged safe, usually "C.A.V.U." (ceiling and visibility unlimited); and a member may solo only after both his instructor and the club officers are sure of his ability to cope with whatever situations might arise...
After the extension agreement had been signed in New York, Southern dock hands refused to go along because, they said, employers in South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports had refused to make any future pay increases retroactive, as the Yankee shippers had agreed to do. From the Gulf, the strike spread swiftly north, and from the way the opposing sides talked, there seemed slight chance of quick settlement...
Derby Days. Last week, along the Vineyard coast, Oscar was carefully working all the likely rocks that he had spotted in half a century of stalking the striper. The big ones were running in their annual fall migration from Maine back to the Chesapeake Bay spawning grounds they had left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
...Angeles thus became the first club ever to come from seventh place to a World's Championship. Anything can happen on the Coast. The Giants may even win it next year...