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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...
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...
Amid all the partying along the 100-mile-wide umbra of total darkness stretching from Mexico toward Florida and northward to Nantucket Island, the jammed hotels and motels included serious amateur scientists carrying altered telescopes and cameras to view or record the historic event without damage to eye or lens. The professionals took to high-altitude aircraft and isolated mountaintops to aim their instruments to best advantage. Out of Wallops Island, Va., NASA fired rockets rather than arrows into the heavens, seeking more precise knowledge of the phenomenon...