Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collison and Bill Walker, working off the West Coast, carried 400 Ibs. of equipment to their seagoing photo assignments. Shooting the submersible Deep Quest, Collison surfaced with the craft, clambered into a helicopter to shoot the aerial view, then dived from the chopper to swim back to the mother ship...
...President Johnson would go over the heads of Congress to persuade Americans to give more help to Africa peppered the Vice President's public speeches and talks with African leaders. There were also some goodies: news of a $36.5 million loan for a dam in the Ivory Coast, $12 million worth of Food for Peace for Ghana, Peace Corps volunteers for the Congo, and help with a road in Zambia, as well as engraved silver bowls for heads of state and tie clips or cufflinks for lesser African functionaries. And everywhere there were African hands eager to be shaken...
...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...
...flag fleet, whose dwindling capacity has been strained by the pressure of supplying the Viet Nam war. After months of contentious hearings, the Federal Maritime Commission, however, has just approved a stride toward greater efficiency. By a 3-to-2 vote, the commission authorized the merger of three West Coast companies into the nation's largest ship line...
...Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe a collection of essays and a report on Novelist Ken Kesey, the Norman Mailer of the West Coast. But all this conspicuous industry settles into sloth when compared with Mystery Writer John Creasey's publishing schedule for the year: 15 books under four different names...