Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fast-moving Brazil has since built a bridge across the upper Parana, the border river, at the great Iguagu Falls, thus giving Paraguay its first direct highway route to the Atlantic. It has financed highways inside Paraguay and has given Stroessner free port facilities on the ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre...
Archaeologists have long been suspicious of Columbus' log. After years of digging in graves and townsites of the Indians who then inhabited the Caribbean islands, they found only three tiny scraps of gold. It looked to them as if the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" had sweetened the record to increase the attractiveness of the lands that he discovered. But last week Anthropologist Paul W. Barker of Maine's Gorham State Teachers College vindicated Columbus. In northern Haiti, he reported, he dug up two golden pendants just like those described by Columbus. Barker may even have found them...
...hero and heroine stepped aboard, the sailors cast off the hawsers, the ship glided away from the jetty. The sky glided with it. Seconds later, with the ship supposedly in open ocean and the waves quartering in on the windward rail, the crew started swaying fore and aft. The attempted stage illusion, like the ballet to which it belonged, was handsome, arresting-and just short of convincing. The occasion: the U.S. premiere last week of Ondine, Choreographer Frederick Ashton's most ambitious work to date...
...year -Boston's Samuel Eliot Morison takes his place in the line of classic narrators of the American past-James F. Rhodes, John B. McMaster, George Bancroft and Edward Channing. Right after Pearl Harbor, Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer prizewinning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), proposed to his friend Franklin Roosevelt the idea of a "full, accurate and early" history of the naval war and got the assignment himself along with a commission as a lieutenant commander on active duty...
...Ocean's 11. This laughing gasser about an attempt by Frank Sinatra and his lout troupe (Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford et al.) to rob five Las Vegas casinos is slapdash slapstick, but that's the way the kookies rumble...