Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...
...touring with the Rolling Stones. Spotting a young groupie crawling along the ledge outside his second-floor hotel room, he opened a sliding glass door to let her in, but she slipped, fell into the ocean-breaking her wrist-and had to be fished out by the Coast Guard. Ellison had barely recovered from that fright when another girl walked through his door and asked him if he was a friend of the Stones. When he said yes, she stripped and flopped onto...
Near San Clemente Island off the California coast, the Navy's trouble-plagued "yellow submarine," Sealab 3, was lowered 610 ft. to the floor of the continental shelf. Then instruments indicated a helium leak in the still-unoccupied deep-sea habitat, and Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon, 33, and two companions were sent below to make repairs. They descended to the 610-ft. level in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule (PTC) and were opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing...
...employment and of increased welfare benefits at every government level, it is no longer so necessary for psychological dropouts to take up the Skid Row life. "Skid Rowers don't last long," says Chicago's VanderKooi. "The community has to recruit to survive. Yet only the West Coast Skids seem to be attracting any younger men-drawn, in part, by the area's hospitable climate and by the availability of harvesttime jobs." The median age of Bowery residents today is 67. As the old men die off, they are not being replaced...
This sort of news spreads like wild-fire in the music world and today the Tea Party has come to be established as one of the hottest places to play on the East Coast. All English and West Coast groups now regard Boston as a mandatory engagement, as much for aesthetic as financial reasons, since they do not make all that much money from an appearance at the Tea Party...