Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were put up at The Dunes, a motel several miles away. Kennedy had raced his yacht, the Victura, that afternoon in the first heat of the annual Edgartown Regatta, an event long attended by members of his family. Kennedy's wife Joan remained at their summer home on Squaw Island off Hyannisport. "Only reasons of health," Kennedy said, prevented her from joining him. Mrs. Kennedy is expecting their fourth child around the first of the year, though this was not necessarily the "reason of health." No other wives attended the party, and no reasons were given for their absence...
...digging and filling for Marghera's deep-water tanker canals and protective dikes have not only helped erode the island's underpinnings, but also seem to have unsettled the natural ebb and flow of the tidal waters. In the past, flooding was a rarity in Venice. But now it has become almost a regular occurrence, as winds and new tidal currents trap an overflow of water behind the lagoon's three egresses. Along the canals, water has seeped through foundations to crack and moisten plaster walls -some of them holding priceless paintings. The frescoes by Paolo Veronese...
With that, Namath flew off to Los Angeles, where the finishing touches are being put on the movie Norwood, which features Joe as an ex-Marine living in Manhattan. He promised to report to the Jets' Long Island training camp by week's end. Would he also quit playing the midnight cowboy around his old watering place, which is now known to wags as Bachelors II? "I think now," said Commissioner Rozelle wryly, "that Joe has a better understanding of guilt by association...
...gangs of toughs and pseudo toughs crashed the gates by the thousands, threw sticks, bottles and rocks at the police. At the Denver Pop Festival the next weekend, gate crashers lobbed firecrackers, bottles and debris at the police and the police threw tear gas. At the Newport (Rhode Island) Jazz Festival over the July 4 weekend, where rock was included for the first time, bonfires were set, chairs and fences broken inside the festival grounds; on the last day, Producer George Wein announced that the appearance of one of Britain's top new groups, Led Zeppelin, would be canceled...
Married. Alec Waugh, 71, British novelist, biographer and world traveler, who for years labored in the shadow of young brother Evelyn, finally achieved fame and fortune of his own with the 1956 publication of the bestselling Island in the Sun; and Virginia Sorensen, 57, U.S. author of children's books (Curious Missie, Plain Girl, Miracles on Maple Hill); he for the third time, she for the second; in a short civil ceremony; in Gibraltar...