Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaffe heard round the world. Editorialists were reminded of Pearl Harbor, exploded in wrathful indignation. The press and the politicos cried for courts-martial of the brass responsible for the parts goof. President Eisenhower demanded an immediate report...
...though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards. Two days later the British embassy made matters worse by barring the press from a party given aboard a British ocean liner in the harbor. Apparently, said 0 Século acidly, the Portuguese could "circulate freely on the Tagus, which is theirs, with the permission of the British...
...friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
...former West Point cadet" named Dwight Eisenhower sent congratulations to a Dickinson College freshman in Carlisle, Pa. Ike was tickled to learn that Colin P. Kelly III, 19, son of the World War II hero killed on a Philippines bombing mission three days after Pearl Harbor, had won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, strictly on his own. The surefire way for "Corky" Kelly to enter the Point: accept an appointment by Ike, pursuant to a request made in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter addressed "to the President of the U.S. in 1956." Young Kelly instead...
...Rocks. Harsen himself has not yet bought a house, lives with his wife in a simply furnished apartment overlooking the harbor in nearby Fort Lauderdale, keeps a weather eye on the passing parade of boats ("When 70% of them are not Chris-Crafts, I'll know something is wrong"). Tanned, -blue-eyed May Smith. 51, is a Smith only by marriage, so she is understandably lacking in some of the finer points of salty boatsmanship (she insists on calling the galley a "kitchen.'' and on cruises she insists on plugging all boat drains at night to keep...