Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once they figured out what yachting was about, the newsmen still had to cope with the sea. They gulped Dramamine pills, borrowed folding chairs from a local funeral home, and perched their typewriters on anything handy-including loaded depth-charge cans-aboard a flotilla of seven Coast Guard boats. Nearly all escaped seasickness, although a CBS announcer in a blimp came down with a bad case...
...radio signals from the first balloon were not picked up because the airplane's receiver was not working properly, but a second balloon dropped into the same storm made itself heard. As Helene moved relentlessly toward the Carolina coast, directional radios tuned to its thin voice could locate accurately the eye's ever-shifting position...
This system, worked out theoretically, worked like a charm in actual fact, the Navy announced last week. It was tested last July over the coast of Georgia. The usual tactic was to attach a package of 1-2 Ibs. of carbon black to a static line and toss it out of an airplane flying through the top of a cloud. When the slack snapped out of the line, the package broke open, releasing the carbon black. Seven clouds out of seven tested dissipated entirely in 2½ to 20 minutes...
...instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date her instructor after hours in nightclubs. "Naturally," said Murray, "we refused permission...
Holy Concubines. The novel's first-person narrator, Ray Smith, is 1) a poet, 2) a coast-to-coast freight-hopping, hitchhiking bum, and 3) a species of religious nut who visualizes himself "wandering the world ... in order to turn the wheel of the True Meaning, or Dharma, and gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise." He is a bug on prayer, and some of his meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha...