Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some staff members were leaving that night for Nebraska. Others would be going on to California the next day. The staff room was jammed with volunteers asking for full-time staff applications. Many had decided to screw school and stay with the campaign. Others would get out to the Coast after exams. And everyone promised to meet in Chicago. The crusade was still snowballing; the entourage of idealistic college dropouts was growing. Someone made a sign: Robert Lowell for Secretary of State. We were dreaming once again...
...Diego. Stricken with polio at six, Thienes began to hike at 14 to strengthen his legs and promote charities that cared for crippled children. In 1905 he covered 9,000 miles in the U.S. and Canada; in 1912 he set a record of 77 days for a coast-to-coast walk-and 50 years later broke it by walking from Los Angeles to New York in 54 days...
Acapulco, top Pacific Coast beach resort, has no less than 83 international jet flights each week. Even such a recently discovered beach resort as Puerto Vallarta, made famous by the film The Night of the Iguana, is now rushing to completion its own $3,300,000 jet airfield, installing the town's first dial telephones and nearly doubling hotel accommodations...
Other bargaining units from coast to coast quickly came to the same terms. After that, calling off the strike, which had been aimed at telephone service in 47 states, needed only membership ratification for picket lines to dissolve and for installers, repairmen, operators and clerks to return to jobs that have been held down in their absence by supervisory personnel. Beirne predicted that ratification would come quickly...
...there is one slight obstacle to surmount before the team can pack their bags, and that is almost every golf team on the East coast...