Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover in 13 hr. 53 min. More than two hours later, Britain's Kenneth Wray staggered ashore. No other swimmer even finished...
...According to Military Historian Vagts (The History of Militarism, Landing Operations), the legend of Eustace the Monk grew up after England's naval victory at the Battle of Dover on Aug. 21, 1217 where the defeated French leader Eustace, a mercenary soldier and "master of pirates," was beheaded. His ghost and invisible ship were detected by one Stephen Crabbe of England...
...Dover, Mass...
...port in the Mediterranean aboard Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' luxury yacht, Swedish Sphinx Greta Garbo spent her 50th birthday at sea. Confident that she would swim the English Channel round trip and non-stop to international acclaim, California's Florence Chadwick set out thoroughly greased from Dover, but after giving up a mile off the French coast, was beached by irate French customs officials, who took a dim view of her arrival or departure without a passport...
...schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...