Word: codding
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...vans are everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
...expected, the gypsy moths (preceded in some places by equally ravenous spanworms) audibly began their leafy banquet on schedule this spring;-"It's awe-inspiring," said Charles S. Wood, chief of Massachusetts' bureau of insect control, when he heard millions of bugs chomping through the Cape Cod woods. "It sounds like a gentle rain in summer." Besides the chewing, naturalists say, the noise is partly the ceaseless drizzle of moth excrement and partly the rustle of falling, half-eaten leaves...
...brutally beaten, gagged and dragged from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter by six burly Russians, little was heard of Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka. Last November Kudirka, 32, sought asylum when his ship, the Sovietskaya Litva, tied up alongside the cutter Vigilant in U.S. territorial waters off Cape Cod to discuss North Atlantic fishing rights. Ten hours after Kudirka jumped aboard the Vigilant and pleaded for sanctuary, Coast Guard headquarters in Boston ordered the Vigilant to allow Soviet sailors to take him back. The incident so outraged the country and incensed President Nixon that the Vigilant's captain was reprimanded...
...silversmith on Cape Cod, while a 1970 Wisconsin graduate in anthropology is quietly living on a New York State farm, making harpsichords for sale. The income from a career in the crafts may be uncertain, but it is not necessarily low. Blacksmiths can make more than $10,000 a year, and according to one careful computation, a toolmaker today can net more in his lifetime than a judge. It is not, of course, the pay that attracts youth to the crafts; it is a chance to be autonomous and to have time "to look inside themselves," as one explains...
...Kennedy worried for a while about what traits "artistically inclined" John Jr. might develop in the absence of a strong father. "I can't imagine anything worse," said Jackie, "than having your son turn out to be a hairdresser." Long before Chappaquiddick. Ted was getting lost on Cape Cod. Nurse Dallas was along one day when he was taking his ailing father for a drive. "I'm lost again, Dad," said Ted, "you'll have to show me the way home...