Word: cob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when the ice nearby is seven inches thick The system, which had been tried experimentally by the Navy, was first used commercially as far back as 1958 by the Harbor Marine Center in Cos Cob, Conn., initially just to keep ice from accumulating around the dock pilings. By chance, a few boats were left in the water and survived the winter in excellent condition...
Bubble baths are so simple that one can even be installed for a lone boat at a private dock (cost: $250). But it is most popular in marinas. This winter the Cos Cob boatyard will keep 80 boats in the water, and Manager Michael Brown expects the number to double again in 1967-68. The one Chicago marina to try it is full to capacity. Ted Fischer, president of the Northport Marina on Long Island installed a bubble system two years ago, now has 75 boats lined up to float until spring...
From the eddying hues of his scenes done in Yellowstone Park to the evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...
...Brazilian doctor says that his wife managed to spend $200 in a dress shop "on a total vocabulary of 'pink,' 'blue,' 'white,' 'my size' and 'how much.' " Other U.S. pluses, by consensus: ice cream, San Francisco, corn on the cob, roadside picnic spots, "houses that look like the ones in the movies," and the variety of the population-"white, yellow and every shade of black," an Italian visitor noted. Tops among minuses are rude customs officers. Others: slums, dismal trains, violence, plastic flowers, women in hair curlers, "magic ringers" vibrating...
DOUGLAS CAMPBELL Cos Cob, Conn...