Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Oldfather, one of the McCarthy leaders in Nebraska, said, "The New Hampshire primary is what really broke the log jam in Nebraska. Since March 12, things have really begun to roll...
Some companies are planning changes to unusual kinds of containers. General Foods, for one, says that it is considering turning out Log Cabin syrup in milk cartons or returning to metal cans if bottles run out. Milk companies are increasing the use of cardboard cartons, which not all customers like. In some cases, switches are impractical. Whisky makers cannot use plastic, for instance, because the containers affect the taste of the liquor. And since blood and blood plasma, as well as many kinds of drugs, have to be shipped in glass, hospitals are threatened with a serious shortage of necessary...
That request, recorded in the Pungo radio log, began the small and unhappy saga that official Washington soon called "the Julio incident." Four members of the Julio, determined to escape from Cuba, had taken guns, seized control of the ship and locked the captain and the rest of the crew in the brig. When the four asked for asylum, the Coast Guard consulted the State Department, then advised the Cuban ship to "approach no closer than the three-mile limit." It dispatched two ships-the cutter Point Brown and a seagoing tug-to investigate...
...bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word log...
...Washington to be completely certain the order was followed during an eight-day period of radio silence maintained by the stubby vessel. Said Rusk: "We cannot be 1000% sure, until we get our officers and crew back and we have a chance to interrogate them and look at the log of the ship." If it then developed that Pueblo had sailed in territorial waters, continued Rusk, "it would not disturb us to let everybody know...