Word: corallis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arcing 30-ft.-high rooster-tail wake. Last week, as 200,000 boat-racing buffs lined the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington, twelve of the big hydros took off after one another in the 54th annual Gold Cup regatta. It looked more like the Battle of the Coral...
...deployed." The fact is that nobody has an effective anti-missile missile yet, and some U.S. officials doubt that anyone ever will. But the tests go on in hope of a breakthrough, and the U.S. has spent $1.2 billion on Nike-Zeus since 1956. At Kwajalein, a 600-acre coral speck in the Marshalls, the Army three years ago began building a complete, $75 million installation, a cubist's delight of domes and circles, triangles and squares. Inside the geometric shapes are housed four separate radar networks, the guts of the Nike-Zeus system: one detects ICBMs from...
Deposited unhurt on a deserted coral island by a plane during an atomic war, they form the responsible vacationland democracy that their heritage calls for, and it gradually degenerates into anarchy, barbarism and murder. When adult rescue finally comes, they are a tribe of screaming painted savages hunting down their elected leader to tear him apart. The British naval officer who finds them says, "I should have thought that a pack of British boys would have been able to put up a better show than that." Then he goes back...
...Coral Buses & Floor Shows. However many papers Chalk does sell in Puerto Rico, they will reach the island aboard Trans Caribbean Airways, another Chalk enterprise. Chalk likes to have his multifarious businesses give one another a helping hand. His newspapers can be expected to plug Trans Caribbean. Similarly, Trans Caribbean once had ticket counters in the offices of Washington's Chalk-owned D.C. Transit System, Inc. And D.C. Transit's buses, not surprisingly, will ultimately have a terminal in Chalk Center, a $27 million office building, hotel and shopping complex to be erected next year in southwest Washington...
Chalk delights in showmanship. When he bought D.C. Transit for $13.5 million from Corporate Raider Louis Wolfson six years ago, Chalk ordered the line's buses repainted in a green, white and coral design selected by Wife Claire Chalk. The capital's first air-conditioned buses were welcomed with a traffic-tangling parade of bands, calypso dancers and pretty girls. But along with the showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly...