Word: gulf
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...births have had more careful attention than .the event among the cranes last week. Whooping cranes normally migrate from the Gulf Coast to unknown breeding grounds in Canada, but Crip and Josephine, the parents of Little 38, had been grounded by wing injuries. Last fall they were brought together by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and given the run of 150 acres of well-fenced Texas marsh. It was not certain that they would get along together. Some were not even certain, in spite of their names, that they were male & female...
From the island-dotted, almost landlocked Gulf of Paria, separating Trinidad from the coast of northeastern Venezuela, Pirate Edward Teach, the infamous Blackbeard, once sallied forth to ravage American ports as far north as Virginia. In the 232 years since Blackbeard's death, the gulf has been a highway for smuggling between Trinidad and the South American mainland. But for a time this month smugglers and even honest fishermen feared to venture to sea. Word had run along the waterfront that once again pirates were operating in the Gulf of Paria...
This week Sonny was free on bail on a charge of attempted robbery; father Singh and three associates were in jail, charged with Philbert Peyson's murder. With sighs of relief, fishermen and smugglers put back to sea in the Gulf of Paria...
Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
While a band sounded ruffles and flourishes, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, 62, commander of the Seventh Fleet at the crucial battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 25, 1944), solemnly stepped for the last time off his flagship, the carrier Enterprise, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, went into retirement after 46 years of Navy service...