Word: piers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrendering to the inevitable, he brought the Santa Maria into Recife harbor, dropped anchor 500 yds. from the pier. Tugboats ferried ashore the passengers and crew. Only then was it realized that Galváo had captured and controlled the big liner for twelve days with a tiny rebel force of 28 men-during some night watches as few as a dozen rebels must have been on duty. Brazilian marines took over the ship to guard against sabotage or an attempt to scuttle. The rebels stacked their arms in the lounge and, as he surrendered with full military honors, Galv...
...Laurence Naismith), anxious to avoid unnecessary trouble with the union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...
...cigars, Jim?" asked Rear Admiral Kenmore McManes, commandant of the Sixth Naval District. Replied Commander James B. Osborn, between puffs on his stogie: "I've got 15 boxes. Admiral.'' Moments later, as a Navy band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a closely guarded pier at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard dock. Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions-from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles-had been stored. Then Skipper Osborn bellowed a time-honored order: "Cast off all lines!" Soon...
...turned loose in Manhattan last week, went off to join his wife Ruth and their two children. On emerging from a federal house of detention and entering a cab, surviving Traitor Greenglass was greeted by hecklers. Shouted one to Greenglass's cabbie: "Drive him off the pier, right into the river, the Red rat!" Instead, whatever he was or is, David Greenglass was driven off into obscurity, probably to pick up his interrupted civilian life elsewhere under a new name...
They are R. Buckminster Fuller '17, who introduced the geodesic dome to modern architecture; Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy, an architect known for his use of thin concrete shells; and Felix Candela of Mexico, an experimenter with such new structural concepts as elliptical domes and umbrellas...