Word: novas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
Died. Sir William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 72, nineteenth Baron Sempill and Baronet of Nova Scotia, a Royal Air Force officer and Air Ministry adviser until his retirement in 1941; of a stroke; in Edinburgh, Scotland. His death poses unprecedented problems of succession, since the claimant to the baronetcy is Younger Brother Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 53, born and raised as a female until 1952, when she legally changed name (from Elizabeth) and sex following hormone treatments...
Boston, undefeated in ECAC play, has lost twice to Michigan Tech and once to St. Francis Xavier of Nova Scotia. The only six likely to challenge their Eastern supremacy is Clarkson, but Harvard captain Bob Clark says B.U. "is ripe for as upset...
GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums...
...literature of the sea from Aeschylus to Conrad. As a man, he became a famous historian of the sea (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II). Man and boy, he sailed "down north and up along" the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia summer after summer, and made voyages of opportunity in all quarters of the globe. Now, in a brief delightful memoir, the old salt recalls with affection some of the finest hours he has passed between wind and water -a day in 1961 when everything went right...