Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Harbor to open an exhibit for the projected American Museum of Immigration on Liberty Island. Boarding one of Manhattan's sightseeing boats, she sailed up to dock at 42nd Street, where Happy and Nelson were piped aboard to pay their respects. The Rockefellers scrambled ashore afterward, but the First Lady was just feeling her sea legs, and she chugged on up the Hudson for two days of sightseeing in her "Discover America" campaign...
...with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller and the Governor's Norwegian-born daughter-in-law, Anne-Marie, in the Governor's apartment overlooking Central Park. He took in the big town's other sights and, feeling the salt rising in his veins, even headed into New York harbor to inspect the Coast Guard's ocean rescue facilities on Governors Island before catching a jet back to Oslo...
...storm-crossed Outer Banks are dissolving into the Atlantic at the rate of 15 ft. a year. There is literally no beach left in parts of Miami Beach; the ocean is lapping at the sea walls, even threatens to topple a brand-new high-rise-apartment complex appropriately named Harbor House...
...invested $9,000,000 over the years on a combination of jetties and pumping devices to keep its tourist industry alive. California spends more than $1,000,000 a year to keep sand on its beaches; the city of Santa Barbara alone requires the full-time services of a harbor dredge, piping sand hydraulically to the shore...
...clear day in 1956, Jack Youngerman, a Kentucky-born painter, then 30, returned to the U.S. after nine years in Paris. As his ship entered New York Harbor, he was struck by the bright sun glinting on the water and the skyline. "It reminded me of the Middle East," he recalls. "I had made several trips there while I was in Europe. Its fascination for me had something to do with clarity and voluptuousness, a preoccupation with perfumes and running water, a hashish atmosphere instead of the heavy barrooms-and-whis-ky Rubens atmosphere of Europe. Now I was struck...