Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FASCIST. Italian history is wryly spoofed in the conflict between a Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and the droll philosopher (Georges Wilson) whom he must steer through retreating Germans, invading Allies, and other perils common to the peninsula...
...takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty-five seconds later, the 266,631-lb. plane was airborne, rocketing over busy Bayshore Freeway, which borders the north end of the airport, and climbing toward a break in the hunchbacked hills of the San Francisco peninsula-and the open Pacific beyond. At that instant, Flight 843 became a nightmare...
...where scores of motor-powered sampans ferrying Sukarno's guerrillas and saboteurs have been intercepted off the Malay Peninsula in the past year, the Indonesians are now using kamikaze tactics to frustrate Malaysian patrol boats. Suicide sampans are rigged with explosives so that they blow up when halted or hit by naval guns, thus deterring attack and giving other insurgent craft a chance to escape in the confusion...
...Huge, castellated, rotunda-capped, the Del Coronado Hotel dominates the Coronado peninsula, just across the Bay from San Diego. While it now caters to conventions, it still holds the loyalty of longtime visitors, including almost anybody who is anybody in Hollywood...
...Just south of San Francisco is one of the most spectacular golf areas in the world. The Monterey Peninsula is spangled with five golf courses, which are set off by the sound of Pacific rollers soughing in on the rocks and cliffs of a coastline overhung with the etched shapes of the famed Monterey cypresses, which need yield nothing in beauty to Italy's justly celebrated sea pines. Deer wander across the golf course near Del Monte Lodge, the sumptuous peninsula hotel. Pebble Beach is a favored course of such diverse luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Bing Crosby...