Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club currently has six men with the requisite commercial licenses, and hopes to add six more in the very near future. It will rent its planes (Piper Tripacers) from the East Coast Aviation Service, and will operate out of Bedford Airport...
...Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast of Africa in 1674 who has now arrived at the astronomical age of 161 years...
Next day, with the three rescue vessels at the site, the U.S.S. Campbell reported that conditions were worse than anything the Coast Guard cutter had seen on convoy duty during World War II. There was one mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...Games. Cushing had only one chair lift at Squaw then, but he decided to apply too. "I had no more interest in getting the games than the man in the moon," he admits. "It was just a way of getting some newspaper space." The space he got in West Coast papers brought a flood of encouraging letters, made up Cushing's mind: "When I got letters from all those people saying what a nice thing I was doing, it made me feel...
Betty Ann alerted the Coast Guard, charging that his craft was not seaworthy. Her lawyers went to court with another sheaf of charges, ranging from kidnaping to conspiracy to commit contempt of court. But for the time being, at least, The Wanderer was at sea. At 42, Sterling Hayden, in his own words "a decent enough man, not too bright perhaps," had finally made his breakout...