Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swim By Instrument. In the narrow Bering Straits between Alaska and Soviet Siberia, Nautilus kept well within U.S. waters, popped up its radar antenna only once for about 30 seconds to take a radar fix. Did the Russians detect them? Anderson thought not. Detouring along Alaska's northern coast to avoid clogged-up ice, Nautilus surfaced for the first time since Pearl Harbor to get a sure fix on a DEW-line radar station, then headed down again into the fantastic beneath-the-sea new world of mountains and deeps that is the nuclear submarine's true element...
...disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling, Peking calculatedly added to the rustle of tensions by moving MIG-17 jet fighters into several previously unused airfields along the South China coast, one of them only 22 minutes' flying time from Taipei...
...obvious fact that French West Africa is wholly dependent on France and the French Union for nearly 80% of its trade-France has a reservoir of good will. French West Africa's most noted political leader is Félix Houphouet-Boigny, sophisticated mayor of the Ivory Coast's capital of Abidjan and a minister of state in De Gaulle's Cabinet. Says he: "We don't want independence. My neighbor Nkrumah in Ghana is independent, and as a result must support an army which is very expensive. Who is really independent, anyway...
...highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much to see the show as to pick up one night's box office receipts (dollar estimate: $5,700). A super-prize is being mulled: an entire island off the coast of Scotland, complete with railroad station, stores, homes and a small hotel. After that-Bert Parks...
...success of ABC as a third network, competing with NBC and CBS for sponsors,' has led to all sorts of secret deals and cut-rate shenanigans, as the TV pitchmen try to sell their big fall programs. But the shortage of the advertising dollar, argues West Coast TV Writer Carroll Carroll, one Variety contributor, is not half so serious as the shortage of talent. "There is not enough creative brainpower alive today to keep the TV monster intelligently or even satisfactorily nourished. The result is that TV has become the world's No. 1 copycat." Most...