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...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
...Patty Hearst's voice: the Examiner added a photocopy of the letter for good measure. Later tapes of Patricia received similar play. While stressing the story's newsworthiness, many San Francisco newsmen chafe at giving a handful of terrorists unlimited space. But, as Examiner Editor Tom Eastham observes, "There appears to be no alternative...
Since that night, Richardson has spent much of his time at his vacation home in Eastham on Cape Cod, where he has boated and fished. Dressed in a pin-stripe suit, he testified in the second week of the committee's hearing on bills to set up an independent Watergate prosecutor. During lulls in the questioning, his eyes were focused on the intricate owl and sunflower he was doodling on notebook paper, but his advice was directed to the Senators: 1) enact legislation requiring Senate confirmation of Nixon's choice as special Watergate prosecutor, and 2) hold...
...fatal accident occurred when Adams tried to land on a beach near his aunt's home in Eastham. He had planned first to land in her back yard, but changed his mind...
...other San Francisco paper, the evening News Call Bulletin, is a blend of unprofitable competitors. Despite its monopoly of the afternoon field, the News Call Bulletin has slipped in circulation until it is not appreciably larger than the Pacific Coast Edition of the Wall Street Journal. Nevertheless, Editor Thomas Eastham plans to deploy a convention force of 25-some 18 more than the Examiner-by drafting his TV critic, a reporter whose normal assignment is the Parks and Recreation Department, and anyone else at hand...