Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prearrangement, Tshombe, who sometimes dabbles in real estate, and his two guards climbed aboard in Palma for a 15-minute flight to the nearby isle of Iviza. There the group lunched at El Prenso restaurant on shrimp and broiled sea bass, looked over a possible building site on the coast, and then emplaned, supposedly for the return flight to Palma. The jet had barely completed the climb out from Iviza when Pilot David Taylor, 32, radioed to the Palma air-control center: "I am being forced at gunpoint by passengers to change route to Algeria." Less than an hour later...
...launching platform for Syrian shells aimed at Israel but also controls one of the sources of the River Jordan, which the Arabs have threatened to divert. For their part, the Israelis hold out, among other things, the possibility of giving Jordan access to a port on the Mediterranean coast, forming a joint development plan and even integrating the communications systems of the two states-all points that would greatly benefit Jordan's economy...
...Knopf, has directed the University of Chicago Press since 1954, made it into the most efficient academic press in the U.S. He has led the drive to provide author-professors with better editing as well as better contracts and royalties. Shugg has also installed computer billing and full-time coast-to-coast salesmen, written eyecatching ads that are more seductive than sedate. Although most university presses fail to turn a profit, the Chicago Press has made $500,000 in the past ten years...
...bindle stiffs on the West Coast trudging from mine to logging camp, the Wobblies were a sacred symbol. For immigrants just off the boat and tending looms in New England textile mills...
...Sete. The same indifference is adopted by her new lover, the young Parisian, who comes to realize that their only true bond is their endless quixotic search. The reader sticks with them both, if only to drink the whiskies, hear the conversation, and see the sky and the coast as they shimmer from the yacht...