Word: coastered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hatless and prop-washed, John Foster Dulles stooped under the spinning rotor blades of the Marine helicopter that set him down on tiny Coaster's Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay one morning last week. Rested from a recent vacation week, he made his way up the lawn into the headquarters building of Newport Naval Base and into President Eisenhower's vacation office. The Secretary of State drew a chair up to the left of the President's desk, reported that he had finished drafting the statement that they had been planning by phone for three days...
...announced that he will spend a work-play holiday at Newport, R.I.* "if and when" the House of Representatives declares a recess (leaving the Senate to grind on with civil rights). Sold on Newport by Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room stone-and-brick quarters of the base commander. Prime assets in Ike's eyes...
...this excellent new biography Author Langford, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, traces Porter's roller-coaster life and attempts to explain the contradictions of his personality. He was born in Greensboro, N.C., a year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried...
Third place Adams will meet Yale's second place Silliman College. The Gold Coaster defense is built around center Rob Richardson and line backer Dick Weller. Adams uses an A formation, much like the varsity's, with fullback Kent Campbell and halfback Charlie Currier running most of the plays...
...field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main Golf Center driving range. Two more wells have been drilled in the path of a proposed $20 million freeway, which probably will be rerouted. Worried Harris County officials have urged the Texas Railroad Commission...