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...breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NORAD: DEFENSE OF A CONTINENT | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...into trunks. The car reached the spot where the Rio Quaccerique, loaded with silt from surrounding hills, whirls through a narrow gorge and widens to a rock-filled pool 100 ft. wide and 40 ft. deep. The ambassador was slightly worried; his best skin-diving equipment was still in Nantucket, where he had spent the summer. But he pulled on an ill-fitting tank of compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Underwater Duty | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...also twelve, was smothered to death in 1953 by a sand cave-in at Nantucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Underwater Duty | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Standard-Times also said that he has been associated with "so-called right-wing causes" since his retirement from the Army in 1951. "A direct descendant of Nantucket whalers, Col. Bunker has addressed the Friends of Senator McCarthy and other right-wing organizations," according to the newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Group Wants Bunker as Overseer | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...Mooney does not suppose that the election of a Democrat indicates a great switch of political feeling on Nantucket. "I'm riding in on a minority vote all right, but it was the largest minority Nantucket has demonstrated for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Will Represent Nantucket | 11/20/1956 | See Source »

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