Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter what the Joint Chiefs of Staff may propose, it remains up to their civilian superiors to dispose. More often than not, the J.C.S. recommendations are accepted. Thus, when Communist PT boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin last summer, McNamara called the Chiefs into his office, asked them how the U.S. should reply. The opinion was unanimous: to launch air attacks against North Vietnamese bases. McNamara relayed that word to the President, who summoned the Chiefs to a White House session, carefully questioned each about his views-and followed the prescription to the letter...
Among cash-rich oil companies, realty investment has become a major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...
...making fun of himself. Many of his avid devotees find the film heretical, and Bogart himself is said not to have liked it much, but it's an indisputably clever bit of whimsey. Written by Truman Capote and John Huston and filmed by Huston's own company on the Gulf Sorrento in Southern Italy, the whole production was a casual vacation exercise for Huston and some of his actor-friends who happened to be in the area at the time...
...police could not hold the trio after the museum robbery without evidence, and so let them go back to Miami on bail. Nevertheless, Murph the Surf and his two friends were tailed constantly. Police suspected that the boys, wise in the ways of Gulf Stream currents and coral reefs, might be stashing their loot beneath...
...that normally occupies most of the area between Alaska and Hawaii, shielding California in winter from rain-bearing oceanic winds, was breaking in two before his eyes. Half of it had moved southward to the latitude of Mexico while the other half had shifted north ward to the Gulf of Alaska. Through the low-pressure gap that resulted, a stream of warm, moist, tropical air, 500 miles wide and dotted with storms, was flowing toward Northern California...