Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is not far enough out, there is still the excitement of hunting whales in a wooden boat off the Azores (for $35 a day), or sitting on a deck chair aboard a "boatel" on Brazil's Araguaia River munching roasted piranhas ($1,600 for three weeks), or a six-week explorer's trip through Mongolia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the diet includes sheep's eyeballs and cooked lamb's head ($3,650). As for the $5,000, five-week trip to Antarctica, the boat does not leave from the tip of Chile until January...
...Well. This helped explain how Karafin, on an $11,000 Inquirer salary, could wheel around town in a pair of expensive Buicks, live in a house worth $45,000, buy $20,000 worth of furniture, and install such extras as central air conditioning and a custom-built staircase. And deck his wife in furs and jewelry, and vacation in Europe and Puerto Rico, and dabble in the stock market. But it was only part of the explanation. Philadelphia's reporters also discovered that Karafin was doing very well in a public relations sideline of investigative reporting...
...Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted to the brand-new post of corporate vice president of North American vehicle product development. Frey is Detroit's sharpest idea man. Besides the Mustang, he is responsible for such innovations as the four-door Thunderbird, the stereo dashboard tape deck, and the station-wagon door that opens out as well as down. He is one of the few auto executives with experience in all three of the industry's essential areas: design, manufacture and sales. In his new job, which covers operations in all Ford divisions, he will take...
Harvard's heavyweight crew preserved its three-year string of wins by only a deck length in its opener against Northeastern Saturday...
Rowing defensively at 34, the Crimson managed to stave off a last-ditch effort by Northeastern, and passed over the line a deck length ahead...