Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder all but useless. Says Staudacher: "It was like skidding on ice. When I saw that rocky shore coming, I believed this...
...doing there? Why had the crew deserted the ship when she was obviously in no danger of sinking? Why had one man been left aboard, left for dead in the No. 4 hold? Who had set fire to the radio shack, and blown a hole in the hull, just above the water line, with dynamite? Who had hidden whose corpse in the coal bunker? Why had the Mary Deare made a mysterious unscheduled stopover at Rangoon? Why did the last man aboard insist on steering her straight for the Channel rocks...
...teach medieval history at U.C.L.A. A stocky, balding Westerner, raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace, where he became director in 1952. His goal at 107-year-old Mills is "tough minds," a sharp upgrading of liberal arts. Last week Mills announced the end of its B.S. degree and home economics...
...steel was ordered. Piece by piece, the men welded and bolted it into a single sheet, shaped it to fit the curve of the hull. Day after day, Deir, his face stubbled and grimy, his clothes soaked with oil, drove himself and the men unmercifully. Summer warmed the sea, the sun blistered their backs, and threats of heavy weather hung over them like a time bomb...
...Perlberg-Seafon; Paramount) is a new version of a slight Samson Raphaelson comedy (Accent on Youth) which first appeared on Broadway in 1934, and soon thereafter on the screen. Hollywood has packed a prize cast into the remodeled hull, but the craft is still so frail that only the acting mastery of Lee J. Cobb and Lilli Palmer saves it from capsizing...