Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little more than local issues and personalities. These are not normal times, however, and the results of last week's contest for a vacant seat from Massachusetts' Sixth District carried implications far beyond the gritty shoe factories at Lynn or the fishing boats off the gray Gloucester coast...
...McHarg astutely analyzes such disasters as the overdevelopment of the New Jersey seashore, where builders put up hundreds of vacation cottages in total ignorance of nature, sapping vital ground water and thus killing the delicate dune grass that anchors beaches. As a result, when a 1962 hurricane lashed the coast, 10,700 homes were damaged or destroyed. The emphatic lesson: design with nature...
...novel idea of making inland waves for fun and profit came to a young Phoenix draftsman after a stay on the California coast in 1965. It took Phil Dexter a year to build his first model -in his backyard-and another year to get it working the way he wanted it. Clairol Inc., which uses surfing as a motif to promote hair coloring, put up the two million for the project. Now, two years later, it includes a 20-acre Polynesia-style complex of palms and high-roofed South Pacific huts housing shops, concessions and picnic areas...
...Crimson won the Wood Trophy, a co-skippered event with two varsity crews, a junior varsity crew, and a freshman crew, yesterday, M.I.T. and Coast Guard finished second with 82 points, 13 more than Harvard. Brown and Dartmonth were fourth and fifth...
...Navy's East Coast Distribution Center will probably give Baughan his assignment sometime this month...