Word: corals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill for dockage of a 64-ft. yacht, the Mayan, at a Fort Lauderdale marina, Lieut. Colonel Claude F. Lowe, executive officer, just laughed and laughed. Everybody knew the Miami CAP was so poor that its members had to pay their own office phone bills. Then, when a Coral Gables man called to ask if he too could give the CAP a yacht, Lowe began to think that something was fishy...
Just about the last place France expected to be troublesome was Tahiti. The largest island of French Polynesia, Tahiti, 2,600 miles southeast of Hawaii, spends most of its time dreaming under swaying palms while the surf breaks gently on the coral reefs. Generations of expatriates-from Melville to Robert Louis Stevenson to Gauguin-have fled to the islands seeking forgetfulness in the company of sunlit skies and black-haired amoral vahines...
...does not like, or with a man who will not try Tom Gifford's theories. One of them is that trolling is not the best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor. A lot of them say: 'Whatcha doing? You going to bottom fish? I didn't come out here...
Operation Hardtack, the U.S. nuclear test program at Eniwetok, will get under way this week, weather permitting. Already 10,000 men, 100 ships and 120 aircraft of Air Force Major General Alvin Luedecke's Joint Task Force Seven are deployed around Eniwetok's dazzling white coral atolls at the heart of a 590,000-sq.-mi. mid-Pacific "danger zone." From April through August Task Force Seven expects to set off 26 to 30 nuclear explosions, ranging from 50 kilotons to several megatons, from test towers, in mid-air and beneath the sea. Programed highlights...
...terra cotta fragments for years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that...