Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others around it-is on an oilfield owned by the Christiana Oil Corp. So valuable has the surface of the aging field become that Christiana has closed and cemented over its producing wells. It has converted the tidal slough on which they stood into a posh residential marina called Huntington Harbour, which sits on the Pacific Ocean south of Los Angeles. Like more and more U.S. companies, it has discovered that land can pay a prettier profit than almost any other investment...
...more than 25 hours before the Commission (longest appearance of any witness), Marina Oswald spoke mostly through a Russian interpreter, haltingly told what it was like to live with Lee Harvey Oswald. Excerpts: "He said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. I think that he had a sick imagination-at least at that time I already considered him to be not quite normal-not always, but at times. He was very much interested, exceedingly so, in autobiographical works of outstanding statesmen of the United States and others. I think that he compared himself to these people whose...
...indignation ask, 'Why is there no butter?' And at the same time if I had put butter on the table he wouldn't have touched it. This is foolishness, of course. A normal person doesn't get irritated by things like that." At one point, Marina was thinking of returning alone to Russia. "He was very sad and upset. He was sitting and writing something in his notebook. I asked him what he was writing and he said, 'It would be better if I go with you.' Then he went into the kitchen...
...remember that he talked about Kennedy's father, who made his fortune by a not very-in a not very good manner. He said he had speculated in wine. I don't know to what extent that is true." The night after Kennedy died, Marina saw Oswald in the Dallas city jail...
...MARINA OSWALD, 23, the assassin's Russian-born wife, was a pitiable creature, beaten and burdened by a psychotic husband who was a flat-out failure in every way. After Oswald was killed, sympathetic people sent Marina some $60,000. She moved into a $15,000, three-bedroom, air-conditioned brick house in a Dallas suburb. She had her teeth fixed, now affects fashionable coiffures and Neiman-Marcus clothes. She bought her own membership in Dallas' Music Box, a private club, and she turns up frequently with dates. Marina tosses down shots of vodka, chases them with...