Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That afternoon Lyndon jetted once more to Atlantic City, motored to the white stucco ocean-front villa that he and his family had taken over for the week from Hess Rosenbloom, brother of the owner of the Baltimore Colts. He entered Convention Hall after the eulogies of John F. Kennedy, Sam Rayburn and Eleanor Roosevelt had ended. As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked it-hands on his knees, elbows akimbo, face impassive...
...whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons in a penthouse suite overlooking the ocean...
...Like An Ocean Wave. Mississippi was trickier, and to handle its case Johnson placed none other than Hubert Humphrey in charge of negotiations. Hubert warned aides that a floor fight must be avoided at all costs: "If it gets on the floor it will roll like an ocean wave-br'ooom!" The compromise required that the regular Mississippi delegates sign loyalty oaths, provided that the Freedom delegates could sit as non-voting "honored guests," with two members voting as "delegates at large," and set up machinery enabling the 1968 convention to reject any state delegation based on racial discrimination...
...masked, they hardly look like prospectors. Yet hundreds of scuba divers on Florida beaches these days are out for treasure, not pleasure. Some have already struck it rich. In the past six weeks alone, more than $1,000,000 in lost gold and silver has been fished from the ocean bottom off Florida's east coast. With every reported haul, more and more Sunday divers take to the water, propelled by bubble-bright dreams of gleaming doubloons and pieces of eight, of jeweled swords and brassbound chests of bullion nestled in the coral...
...reasons of both profit and prestige, U.S. companies find Western Europe increasingly attractive as a place to do business. Since 1958 their investment in European ventures has more than doubled, from $4.6 billion to an estimated $9.6 billion last year-and it is still rising fast. Obviously, the ocean crossing has been largely successful, or American firms would not be so anxious to make the trip. But too often, both Europeans and Americans in Europe agree, U.S. businessmen step onto Europe on the wrong foot, making costly blunders that are usually avoidable...