Word: oceanfront
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...million investment program for building heavily subsidized housing for the middle class. But neither the casinos nor many of the Inlet's inhabitants have much faith in the effort. "You can't mix caviar with tuna," says Dorothy McCann from the rocker on the porch of her oceanfront Victorian home. McCann, 71, has reason to sound ornery: the agency bought her out last month as part of its raze-and-rebuild plan, despite the headline-making campaign she waged to stay put. "My husband Frank wants me to move out and go to a place where we'll have some...
...ever. In 1971 she dusted off a couple of past incarnations with a new play, Slam the Door Softly, that was characteristically full of tart one-liners ("I don't want alimony; I want severance pay"). A year later she held a reception for President Richard Nixon at her oceanfront estate in Honolulu before he met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan. Luce held no position, official or otherwise, with the magazines her late husband founded, but she did not hesitate to let their editors know when she disagreed with them. In 1974, rallying behind an embattled Nixon...
...entrepreneurs in the fast-growing field of high-tech golf clubs -- sticks designed to compensate for poor swings. His putters, irons and metal woods are specially weighted to help golfers keep their shots on line. Demonstrating with a five iron at a course down the coast from his oceanfront home in Long Beach, the 6-ft. 3-in. Duclos jokes that "if you can't hit it straight with these clubs, you need a physical." Apparently, many golfers believe his pitch. Duclos's fledgling Huntington Beach-based company, Slotline Golf, doubled its annual sales to $8 million...
...Ocean City, Md., developers hoping to reinvent Miami Beach, where a single mile of oceanfront is now worth an estimated $500 million, began building high-rises on the dune line in the 1970s. So that people on the lower floors could have an unimpeded view of the ocean, the dunes were simply bulldozed away. Since then, the ocean has come to see the tourists: beneath many buildings, pilings are exposed to the waves. At Garden City, S.C., just south of Myrtle Beach, where big condos dot the waterfront, crumbled seawalls and wrecked swimming pools testify to the power of storms...
That does not stop people from trying. The growing damage to oceanfront property has generated a host of makeshift solutions to erosion. On Galveston Bay, desperate ranchers have positioned junked cars on the shore to prevent the waters from washing away roads. Conservation officers are planting dense patches of cordgrass just offshore in an effort to buffer the bay's clay banks from the relentlessly lapping waters. To protect the transplants until they take hold, conservationists have jury-rigged a protective barrier of old Air Force parachutes in the water to absorb and attenuate the force of the waves. Harry...