Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomorrow's sailing, or the prospects confronting George McGovern, or the latest gossip about who misbehaved after too many vodkas and tonic. But sooner or later, among the gatherings of the well-to-do and fashionable on the Massachusetts resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket,* the talk is likely to turn into bitter arguments over this summer's No. 1 question: Should the Federal Government move in and take charge of preserving the islands...
...Chappaquiddick recently went for a price of $125,000. Some projects on the Vineyard, where building permits are filed at the rate of one a day, would carve old farms into quarter-acre lots; others include the island's first beachfront condominiums and its first trailer camp. On Nantucket, now dotted with about 3,000 gray-shingle houses, 1,884 house lots were being planned for development this spring. Besides creating an almost suburban clutter, the projects endanger the limited local water supplies. Nantucket's Hummock Pond already is rank from sewage overflow. In the Vineyard, declares Planner...
Died. Piero Calamai, 75, captain of the Andrea Doria when, on July 25, 1956, the Italian liner collided with the Stockholm off the Nantucket coast and sank; in Genoa, Italy. Though a naval veteran of 39 years and both World Wars, Calamai retired to the hills of Liguria following the inquiry into the collision and never ventured to sea again...
...love comes in sudden bursts, like pain or memory, amid the daily clamor. What do you miss by not being in the U.S. at this time? You miss the landscapes of your real or imaginary home, whether the hills of Pennsylvania or Virginia, the fogs of San Francisco or Nantucket. You miss the inconvenience, the drabness, the dirt of our cities, and the grim, rather moving determination that something must be done about "the environment," a term that Americans are beginning to use as a joint synonym for nature and fate. You miss the girls: their long American legs struggling...
...district also includes Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...