Word: coronado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coronado, Calif...
...flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
...Marshall Islands to the Caribbean in his own hunt for sunny weather, clear water, exotic fauna and flora. Last year he tied himself under a canoe, inspected coral reefs off the Colombian coast of South America while an Indian paddled. This week he is filming near Mexico's Coronado Islands. Soon he will scout the waters off Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti-as well as Samoa, where some World War I German cruisers are rumored to lie photogenically scuttled...
...Things & Thugs. With the oil income going for scholarships instead of firewater, things are looking better for the Navajos than at any time since the day when Coronado hove into the area in 1540. "We are shooting for big things," says Chairman Jones. "Within a few years we hope to have every Navajo child over six in school. We want to send our young people to college. We want them to come back to us, too, and we will use oil money to make places for them as doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers...
...Judge. In his story of Cortés, Pizarro and the other conquistadors-Balboa, Coronado, Ponce de Leon, De Soto-Author Descola gives not only gaudy melodrama but also psychological insights, which make the figures on this great tapestry emerge as living men. In the end it was the Dominican, Las Casas, the "Apostle of the Indies," who judged the conquistador's pride. A conquistador himself before he entered his order, he served as a bishop in Mexico and bitterly fought against Spanish officials for the abolition of slavery; history has vindicated his demand that the conquered has equal...