Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807, by James Pope-Hennessy. From its origins on the 15th century African Gold Coast to the Abolition Act of 1807, the author documents the vast complex of international crime that sold people for profit...
Though free navigation courses are offered by the Coast Guard's Power Squadrons, Simonsen correctly guessed that many aspiring boatmen would prefer studying in their own homes, and at their own speed. To accommodate people who "want to buy a boat this winter and sail it to Hawaii next summer," he devised two simplified courses in celestial and coastwise navigation, both of which can be completed in as little as three months...
Satisfied Graduates. With the captain busily grading lessons and his English-born wife June handling advertising, the Coast Navigation School, headquartered in a modest suite of offices in Santa Barbara, is working overtime to keep up with a current enrollment of 1,100; and it gets 500 new inquiries a month from as far off as Egypt and Thailand, to say nothing of G.I.s in Viet...
...Francisco baseball fans, the 81-acre field near Nob Hill is best known as the longtime home of the Pacific Coast League's Seals, whose stadium was torn down after the team moved away in 1958. But last week workmen were preparing the old grounds for a new and different pitch. And by next spring, bargain hunters instead of ball fans should be swarming into a $9,000,000 shopping complex belonging to one of the nation's largest yet least-known retailers-Manhattan-based Interstate Department Stores...
...seems satisfied that slavery went out of business only when it ceased to be really good business. But in the end, he does not quite convince the reader or himself that the profit motive alone was responsible for the routes of guilt that can be traced from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1441 to the riot-ripped cities of America in the summer of 1967. Beyond the simple, gory melodrama of greed, a margin of evil in human affairs still remains visible but unaccounted...