Word: coast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory qualified the Crimson for the Schell Trophy, which is a step towards the Atlantic Coast Championships...
...concrete terms, the weekend vote -held in 67 Florida counties, from the rural panhandle to the posh Gold Coast-was a meaningless preliminary to an equally meaningless straw vote that will be held in mid-November to sample presidential preference. None of the rivals will collect a single vote good for the 1980 nomination; the March primary will determine that. Yet the practical irrelevance of the exercise did not keep the forces of President Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy from spending extravagantly. "Florida for Kennedy" will have laid out $175,000, Carter $250,000. What they hoped...
...this week began and the vote counting proceeded at an agonizingly slow pace, it looked as if the President would get his victory-and by more than one vote. Carter did well in the northern Panhandle, next door fo his native Georgia, Kennedy in Gold Coast counties like Broward and Palm Beach; he also made a stronger showing than expected in central Florida. The big surprise was Dade County (Miami), where Kennedy strategists had been hoping for a clean sweep but Carter seemed to be holding...
...never existed says Handlin. Especially the references to the way those Africans behaved: all available evidence proves Africans had no concept of Africa, nor did they regard all Africans as brothers. Also, according to Handlin, Haley's Kunta Kinte is not a man of the 18th-century West African coast, but a 20th-century civil rights activist...
Shedding the xenophobia that raged during the Cultural Revolution, Peking is looking to the non-Communist world for the scientific know-how once provided by the U.S.S.R. American oilmen are aiding in a search for petroleum off the South China coast. The Chinese are talking of enlisting U.S. experts for tapping the energy resources of great rivers like the Yangtze (at present China uses only 2% of its hydroelectric potential). Peking also wants to make direct purchases, especially of computer hardware...