Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masterly handling of light and flashing color. He just missed meeting Gauguin in Tahiti. In practice, La Farge was too much the meticulous mandarin (he loathed shaking hands with strangers) to refer to Gauguin other than as the "wild Frenchman." But his artist's eye easily bridged the gulf...
After such arduous tasks, the King repairs to his equally strenuous hobbies. Not long ago he built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery...
...major infusion of fresh American military power if it is ever required. The funnel for that infusion of men and equipment will be a new deep-water port and mammoth airfield at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. With its pair of 11,500-ft. runways, fuel pipeline to the railheads at Don Muang, giant ammunition storage piers, the $75 million Sattahip complex is the largest military construction job in all of Asia, phasing into operation over the next two years...
Harvard's number four man John Hawkins fired the gulf team's best score of the year, a 72, to lead the Crimson to come-from-behind 4-3 victory over Dartmouth south yesterday...
...Manhattan federal court, the SEC amended its complaint against Lament, who had previously been accused of tipping the find to Morgan officers handling customer accounts. In essence, the amended complaint said that on that day of April 16, 1964, Lament had also bought 3,000 new shares of Texas Gulf Sulphur himself. This was more than two hours after a company-sponsored press conference had announced the news of the new field. The word had already been carried on Dow-Jones tickers. Brokers' representatives had attended the press conference and phoned the information to their offices. Rumors...