Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Pearl Bailey leads the second half of a 20th anniversary salute...
Died. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 86, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the devastating Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; of a heart attack; in Groton, Conn. In a military investigation following the Pearl Harbor debacle, Kimmel and his Army counterpart, Lieut. General Walter C. Short, were charged with "unpreparedness" in allowing themselves to be caught so totally by surprise. Both were relieved of command after which they quickly retired from service. To his dying day, Kimmel believed that he was the scapegoat of an F.D.R. maneuver "to get the U.S. into...
...small boat used by pearl divers...
Died. Edward S. Crocker, 72, U.S. diplomat who in 1941, as first secretary of the embassy in Tokyo, received the official Japanese declaration of war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and spent the next seven months in confinement at the embassy until the Swiss arranged his release; after a long illness; in Manhattan. "At no time in the history of civilized nations were diplomatic representatives so treated," said he of the constant harassment by Japanese police...
Along with cities like Houston, Richmond and Birmingham, Atlanta epitomizes the New South. An industrial, modern, rapidly changing urban complex, Atlanta seems at once foreign to, but trapped within the rural Old South. Not as much a pearl of the Renaissance languishing in a medieval sea as some of its boosters like to imagine, Atlanta is more a cacophony of modernity occasionally pierced by the strident monotone of its feudal past. McGill calls his city "a fly caught in amber...