Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promotion to admiral." Largely to appease Sea Dog Dismukes, who, although credited with saving the torpedoed transport Mount Vernon in World War I, was being forced into retirement because of age, Congress that year passed the so-called "Tombstone Law." Under it, all battle-cited Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers are promoted one grade upon being piped out of service. This allowed a generous wash of war-decorated four-stripe captains, for example, to engrave "Rear Admiral" across their business cards, social invitations-and tombstones...
...most crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...
ARCHAEOLOGY holds no more compelling mystery than that of the Olmec Indians, who ruled the Gulf coast of Mexico even before the time of Christ. The well-known Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations all stemmed from the Olmec culture, but their parent culture remains almost totally unknown. Practically all science has to go on is works of art dug from the jungle ground...
...that will present two centuries of American history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx and shaped like the U.S., Freedomland will cram the kiddies full of "Little Old New York" (1750-1850 style), San Francisco at the time of the Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur...
...privacy of their homes. They discovered only one place that approached a formal jazz club-a small cabaret in Leningrad. The big surprise was how well up the Russians are on every U.S. style from old-time gutbucket New Orleans to brassy progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles so popular in 1959. How do the Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone...