Word: sea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEA CHANGE, by J. R. Salamanca. Bitterness and tenderness are the alternating currents in this novel of the breakup of a marriage, by the author of The Lost Country and Lilith...
...Ismailia. Fireworks rocketed above the waterway, while 6,000 guests, including the Emperor of Austria and the Crown Prince of Prussia, celebrated the opening of Suez at a huge ball. Said Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps to the Khedive Ismail of Egypt: "Moses ordered the waters of the Red Sea to retire, and they obeyed him. Today, at your command, they return to their former...
...Vice President's ancestral village lies eight hours away from Athens over a narrow, bumpy country road. It sits in the sunshine on the western slopes of the Greek division of Peloponnesus, six hairpin curves above the ink blue Ionian Sea, an immaculate whitewash of stucco structures with red tile roofs...
...Navy crew will ride the nautically named Yankee Clipper into moon orbit after 83 hours in space. Then Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, and Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, will board the module Intrepid for their trip to the moon's surface. While his fellow astronauts explore the Sea of Storms 69 miles below, Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, will spend a lonely day and a half in orbit...
...Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser exhorted the Arabs to prepare to fight against Israel "a battle of destiny on a sea of blood under a blazing sky." Also, in Cairo, representatives of 13 Arab states, convening as the Joint Arab Defense Council, gathered to discuss ways of mobilizing their resources for the struggle against Israel. There, too, talks between Lebanese officials and leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization ended in a cease-fire between the guerrillas and the Lebanese army-the result of which is that the fedayeen will now be able to continue using Lebanon as a base from which...