Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rediscover this monster land" after years of easy living in Manhattan and a country place in Sag Harbor. L.I. He meets some interesting people: migrant Canucks picking potatoes in Maine, an itinerant Shakespearean actor in North Dakota, his own literary ghost back home in California's Monterey Peninsula. But when the trip is done, Steinbeck's attempt at rediscovery reveals nothing more remarkable than a sure gift for the obvious observation...
Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: The Armoured Dove, a new play by Nord Riley, about a sort of Major Barbara of the missile...
...colored portraits of Nasser, King Saud became furious; police announced that the pilgrims could land, but the holy carpet could not. In the end, neither did! Budgets & Bureaucracy. Saud is well aware that Nasser's propaganda has awakened millions of illiterate Saudis to the world beyond their desert peninsula. Nowadays, anti-Saud pamphlets are appearing on the desks of civil servants and army officers throughout the country. In addition, hundreds of young, well-to-do Saudis, many of them schooled in the U.S., return home to infect the rising generation with a yearning for modern life. Faced by these...
...recuperate. Not Van Looy. Fortnight ago, the Emperor and his red guard pedaled out of Milan om the start of one of bike racing's toughest and richest events: the $72,000 Giro d'Italia, a 21-day marathon that winds 2,608 miles around the Italian peninsula and traverses 6000-ft.-high mountain passes in a brutal test of stamina as well as speed. Last week, with seven legs completed and 14 to go, Van Looy suffered from stomach and leg cramps. But he was within striking distance of the leaders in the 130-man field...
...Colonel Archie Clapp, who has lent his name to his squadron, "Archie's Angels." The converted aircraft carrier Core steams regularly upriver to Saigon, carrying men, munitions and more helicopters. The 1,000-mile stretch of the South Viet Nam coast, from the 17th Parallel to the Camau Peninsula, is patrolled by ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet to intercept sampans or junks carrying Red supplies down from North Viet...