Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayors of cities along France's Mediterranean coast last week, the U.S. consulate in Nice dispatched an urgent predawn request: call out the police and round up all the U.S. Navymen in town. In half a dozen French and Italian ports, U.S. shore patrols marched into bars, hotels and nightclubs in search of men and officers of the U.S. Sixth Fleet...
Next on the schedule is the Eastern Dinghy Championships, to be held this weekend at the Coast Guard Academy in New London. Deknatel and Tom Townsend will skipper the two varsity boats entered in the championships. The Crimson won the meet last year...
...beginning itself, however, promised to be the fulfillment of a crusade for democracy at Harvard. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: High school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue, and final and "waiting" clubs were forming, with clubhouses erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both socially and physically, was splitting into two camps...
...Consolidated Electrodynamics started out in 1937 to make instruments for oil exploration, never even reached $ 1,000,000 annually until it got into West Coast electronics. Now, under President Hugh F. Colvin, it makes electronic spectrometers to analyze gases in petrochemical plants, recording oscillographs to measure strain in auto-and steelmaking processes, a complete line of "Datatape'' magnetic recording systems to preserve missile and aircraft flight-test data. Result: sales jumped from $924,000 in 1946 to $25 million in 1956, will hit $35 million this year. The company's stock, which sold for $4 a share...
...masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master...