Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nassau itself, the vacationer with a well-lined wallet can get away from teeming tourists, beach bums, surly service and bad food for $60 to $70 per couple per day at Huntington Hartford's somewhat Hollywoodish Ocean Club on Paradise Island (long called by a less idyllic name: Hog Island) or at Lyford Cay (pronounced key). Lyford Cay is a club, founded five years ago, where a couple (if found acceptable) may rent one of the 50 guest bedrooms ($56 a day) in the clubhouse or a two-bedroom cottage ($140 a day) like those occupied by President Kennedy...
...necessarily, Aerodynamicist Robert Brodsky told the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences in Manhattan last week. Spaceships, like ocean liners, said Dr. Brodsky, can carry lifeboats. When stowed on board, a Brodsky-designed lifeboat will be a cylinder of strong, heat-resistant plastic up to 1 yd. in diameter, 11 ft. long, and weighing about 1,000 lbs. Inside will be an airtight capsule large enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel...
...their squawking transistor radios and return to the cities, they will leave behind more than $55 million spent on food, lodging and recreation. Included in the take will be an estimated $3,600,000 spent gambling at the world's biggest casino, stretching four blocks along the ocean, with room enough inside for 20,000 customers (Monte Carlo's capacity: 7,000). By U.S. standards, that may not be much money, but for the average Argentine worker, who makes less than $100 a month, throwing about $6 an evening at the casino is a real fling. Last week...
...bosom) than the straight-hanging classic, comes in all lengths-cut short, often above the knees (for the walk from hotel to beach), street-length, well above the street (for the last sunset stroll along the water), or clear to the ground (for the after-dinner dance on ocean liner or hotel veranda...
...Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable...