Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trutta, Tang, Wahoo. The sea saga began at 2 a.m. July 23, when Nautilus pulled clear of its berth at Pearl Harbor, its destination announced as the Panama Canal. Only a handful of Americans knew Nautilus' secret mission-an 8,146-mile voyage from Pearl Harbor to Portland, England, via the North Pole. Last August and September Nautilus had probed under the ice pack in a little-noticed voyage, got within 180 miles of the Pole and closer than any ship had gone before. Last December Nautilus' developer, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover, predicted that Nautilus would...
...northern shores to the future Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarines; 2) pioneered a potential though difficult underwater commercial trade route that remakes the map of the world. And as Anderson flew on from Washington at week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment. "Dear Mr. President," it read. "I hope, sir, that you will accept this letter as a memento of a voyage of importance to the United States. Signed at the North Pole...
...Part of Portland's trouble, according to one principal, is the tendency of civic groups to regard high schools as the source of "a fine captive audience and a supply of free talent." Businessmen's luncheon clubs are too inclined to call up a school music director and ask him to "send the band over at noon." Schools, too, have been at fault; one music director, who boasted of the size of his department, explained that frequent student performances at nonschool events were "good for our public relations." Promised Superintendent Edwards: Music teachers will be encouraged...
When the new rules were laid down, some Portland educators braced for cries of protest from the public. To their pleasant surprise, most of the people who spoke up agreed that it was time to have less circus and more school...
Something Borrowed. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Frank Rose Jr. had her husband thrown in jail after she spotted a picture in the paper that showed him cutting a wedding cake with his new bride...