Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." Cold war humor crackles on an island off New England when a Russian sub runs aground on a sand bar and its jittery crew, led by Broadway's Alan Arkin, inadvertently panic the populace in their hilarious efforts to get the tub launched again...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. A dazzling ode to sun, sand and surf, starring two young Californians as they travel the globe in search of paradise: the perfect beach with the perfect wave...
Just 40 miles south of San Francisco stretch the white sands of San Gregorio. One of the West Coast's most beautiful beaches, it is also one of the most secluded. The 1½-mile stretch is hemmed in by steep sand cliffs, access is difficult and for some thirty years it has been a hideaway for a quiet band of nudists-men, women and sometimes whole families who descend on weekends and merrily remove their clothes...
...high of 2,100 to a disappointing low of 800, owing partly to the stiff price of tickets (from $3.50 to $10). But no one was discouraged. The festival, financed with $170,000 raised by the community, was conceived as a "cultural counterattack" on the "sex, suds and sand reputation" of Daytona, and such things take time. Says Festival Director Tippen Davidson: "Something was needed to round out our tourist image-not just naked girls being bounced on a beach blanket...
...years ago last week, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and set the stage for the bloody Suez crisis that rocked the world in November 1956. Thereupon, Israel invaded the bleak, sand-blown Sinai Peninsula, ostensibly to destroy guerrilla bases operating against her borders. Then, speaking loftily of "separating the belligerents" and "protecting" the canal, Britain and France ordered Egypt to surrender its control to them; when Egypt refused, they began bombing Cairo and Port Said. In the end, amid the angry protests of the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles and a rattle of rockets...