Word: harbour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safe Harbour...
...your article on receding U.S. shorelines [April 26], the statement that in Miami Beach the ocean "threatens to topple a brand-new high-rise apartment complex appropriately named Harbour House" is absolutely untrue. We have been advised by competent engineers and architects that our buildings are constructed on a solid foundation of hundreds of pilings, and the sea wall was designed and constructed so as to withstand every type of hurricane as well as the possibility of erosion. Our architect has reported to us that "if the Harbour House were placed out in the middle of the ocean...
Furthermore, one of our tenants, Robert Lynch, reports: "These buildings have sustained two very severe hurricanes -one was the worst we have had in years, yet Harbour House never gave a quiver...
...mate. He had consulted 100 party leaders, businessmen and labor officials, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. Boss George Meany, who simply urged him to choose the best man. By the morning after his nomination, his mind was made up. A week before Chicago, he had met for two hours in his Harbour Square apartment in Southwest Washington with Gene McCarthy. McCarthy agreed that his own chances for the nomination were slight, whereupon Humphrey asked if the second spot would appeal to him. "No," said McCarthy. "Don't offer it." During the same week, Humphrey visited Teddy Kennedy at the Senator's McLean...
...have given way to a rather more rapacious species - sharks capable of picking an unwary tourist's wallet to the bone in no time. Along the shore, multistoried luxury hotels and condominium apartments march like see-through Stonehenge slabs from the strip's south end to Bal Harbour in the north, constituting what one appalled Northerner calls "our grossest national product...