Word: decking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient, potbellied C46 of Cuba's nationalized Aerovias Q had barely broken ground from Havana airport, bound for the Isle of Pines with 53 aboard, when five men rushed the flight deck, guns in hand. Two guards aboard the plane fired their pistols. In the point-blank battle, the pilot, one guard and an attacker were killed. Six others, including the copilot, were wounded. Miraculously, the copilot managed to land in a sugar cane field, and the surviving would-be hijackers fled...
...begins to clear and the boat finally pushes into open water. Nancy, the passengers, and Barnaby Slade, a student at a Pennsylvania college, dance through a delightful scene on the sun deck. "Beatnik Love Affair" is what Mr. Coward calls it, and its the first glimpse of something really up to expectations. When Barnaby and Nancy are on stage, the show comes alive, and fortunately this becomes more frequent as we sail along...
That boat ride may have been the worst presidential decision since the Bay of Pigs invasion. It was a cold, rainy day; the President boarded his yacht without hat or coat, spent much of the two-hour trip on an open deck. He returned to the White House later that afternoon, underwent about a 15-minute physical examination from Dr. Travell. All seemed to be going well. But at 1:30 o'clock the next morning. John Kennedy awoke with a sore throat, an aching head, a queasy stomach. The President took his own temperature, then...
...creating sound. No such underwater transducer (noisemaker) had been built before, but the very first units were successful. The largest Massa transducer is now installed in the converted Navy tanker, Mission Capistrano. It is so huge that when it is retracted, part of its soft, length shows above the deck. When in use, it is lowered into the depths, where it manufactures sound from enough electric current to supply a city of 50,000 people...
...sleep under the stars, share your Army rations with our insect hosts, and observe our training day, which runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. But don't bring any party paraphernalia. A pup tent gets kind of crowded when a hi-fi set and a couple of deck chairs are installed...