Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyers), at least a 100-amperes electric service system, more acoustical tile and heavier walls to cut down on noise, full insulation to save on heating and cooling bills, an entry connecting with all areas of the house to eliminate using the living room as a hall, and private outdoor living areas...
...noteworthy touch of authenticity was provided by a vintage London taxi especially imported for the show from England, which drove on and off the outdoor set as called for in the script...
Thach swung into characteristically blurring motion, gathering his components and his men, laying out his experimental course over a 100-by-100-mile section of the Atlantic ("My large outdoor schoolhouse"). Alfa's job was "very simple," he explained. "There's 10,000 square miles of water out there, and ours is just a problem of conversion. We've got to convert all that to 350 feet by 35 feet-the space that a submarine occupies out of all that area...
Skipper Thach works his people hard. "We pay overtime," says he wryly, "after 24 hours a day." Task Group Alfa fuels its destroyers during mealtimes to save precious hours. He has cut his 10,000-mile outdoor classroom into four segments, runs off exercises in each one-as many as a dozen in a day and night. With the completion of each exercise, he folds his 160-lb., 6-ft. frame over the chart tables, carefully puts on his reading glasses for a close, almost wordless examination of the results. And the exercises continue unceasingly, each one posing new problems...
...Topeka's big outdoor municipal pool, the starter's gun barked for the 100-meter freestyle in the National A.A.U.'s Senior Women's swimming championship. Six of the U.S.'s best women swimmers soared off the pool's edge in flat trajectory and smacked into the water. By the time they turned at the far end of the 50-meter pool, a tall, 14-year-old blonde held the lead, increased it with each powerful stroke, finished well out in front. Susan Christine ("call me Chris") von Saltza had done...