Word: havens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizing on hatred of the Germans as a popular unifying theme, Poland's postwar Communist government has rarely missed a chance to belabor West Germany as a haven of unrepentant Nazis. Now, in an abrupt switch, Party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka has held out the promise of better relations in return for West German acceptance of the Oder-Neisse Line as Germany's legal eastern boundary. The motivation is economic: in search of up to $400 million to modernize their old plants, the Poles hope that a more friendly political atmosphere might bring in much-needed West German...
...City, L.I., where Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson-the grandson of an Anglican clergyman-hailed her as the "happy crusader," and tacky Gaelic Park, a sometimes Irish hurling field in The Bronx, where she greeted the crowd in Gaelic and said that money was pouring in so fast "we haven't had time to count...
...uncratered maria are probably the last major features to have been formed on the lunar surface, the moon's appearance has remained essentially unchanged for billions of years. "It's something, isn't it?" Urey reflected last week. "Rocks sticking up above the surface . . . perhaps they haven't changed much since they were formed...
...that, Seaver was very nearly overshadowed last year by Jerry Koosman, a gangling (6 ft. 3 in., 205 Ibs.), grinning pitcher who learned to throw the ball in the family barn, has a brother named Orville and says things like "I haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic." If Seaver's acquisition was fortuitous, Koosman's was truly preposterous. Who but the Mets would act on a tip from one of their stadium ushers? The usher's son, who caught for an Army nine at Fort Bliss, Texas, wondered whether the Mets might be interested...
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena was back at his pre-Chappaquiddick chore of directing traffic. The sum mer residents of Martha's Vineyard were savoring the final days before they would pack their station wagons on Labor Day and head for the ferry at Vine yard Haven for their ride back to the mainland. But the Vineyard summer crowd will no sooner be gone than scores of reporters and camera crews will pour into Edgartown for the Sept. 3 inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Poucha Pond...