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...radioed the famous message, "Scratch one flattop," that signaled the sinking of the first Japanese carrier by American warplanes; of cancer; in Virginia Beach, Va. In May 1942 Dixon commanded dive-bomber squadron V52 when 93 American planes attacked the light carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral...
Leslie Grogan Coral Gables...
...Neapolitan" spirit of the show appears, not in high religious painting or in official portraiture, but in the "minor" and decorative work: the bright frothing of shells and red coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy...
Among the exhibits are re-creations of the watery environments of coral reefs and a section of the Maine coastline (assembled, ironically, from casts of rock taken along the shore of Massachusetts). The last is sure to be a hit with schoolchildren, since they will be able to pick up and handle living tidal organisms such as horseshoe crabs, moon snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot...
Extensive air-transport service in and out of Miami International Airport has made that city a key jumping-off point for companies doing business in South America. In recent years, more than 100 multinational corporations, including Alcoa, Du Pont, Goodyear and Borden, have opened regional offices in nearby Coral Gables, a ten-minute drive from the airport...