Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Growlers & Brash. A small West German ocean-going trawler, the Johannes Krüss, and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
...beauty, and rapacious figures from the underground to duel over one of the world's great fortunes. The locale should be evocative: cafes on the Champs-Elysees, sun-drenched days at Cap d'Antibes, intrigue and attempted murder on the war-ravaged reaches of the North African coast. For such a true story, involving those standbys of fiction, the goodhearted prostitute and a hired assassin who feels compassion for his victim, and for a developing scandale that gives promise of shaking French society as did the Stavisky case in 1934, see FOREIGN NEWS, L'Affaire Lacaze...
...federation might well have been larger, had it not beea for the opposition of another ambitious African ruler -Felix Houphouet-Boigny, strongman in the Ivory Coast, and the only African of ministerial rank in De Gaulle's government. Houphouet-Boigny is afraid that his Ivory Coast, the richest country in the area, might have to foot most of the bills. He not only kept the Ivory Coast out, but persuaded Niger to stay out, too. His lobbyists were less successful in the Voltaic Republic, though they had recently sent a truckload of wedding gifts to the emperor...
...towns in Britain are so contentedly Tory as Bournemouth on England's south coast -a palmy haunt of the retired rich, of Pekingese dogs and uniformed chauffeurs. But last week, with a general election possibly a few months off, the parliamentary constituency of Bournemouth East was making a spectacle of itself...
...actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from. So just to be on the safe side, Hitler held back 60,000 troops and a Panzer division from the Channel coast, deployed them to reinforce the French Riviera against a possible attack from North Africa...