Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard and 38 other college teams will meet in New Haven tonight through Saturday for the 22nd annual Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships. For the first time since the event was established in 1938, a team title will be at stake; and the Crimson swimmers have a fair shot...
...June and the first half of July. The dry, sunny weather that it brought dried out and heated the earth's surface, and hot air rising upward intensified the high-pressure area and its drought-producing effects. The moist winds from the Gulf were deflected to the Eastern seaboard...
...strike. Algeria lay eerie and still, chilling Europeans into renewed awareness of their dependence on the Moslems who served them as cooks and maids, clerks and mechanics. The French had warned that they would fire on demonstrators, but in seaboard villages flanking Algiers, the Moslems demonstrated anyway, sometimes led by uniformed jellagha. In Constantine, thousands of Moslems flung themselves against massed French troops. By strike's end, there were 14 French casualties, 88 Moslem dead...
Still there were more delays. Weather reports were coming in from the length of the Southeastern seaboard, and the possibility of cloud cover had to be calculated over and over. Minor mechanical troubles had to be repaired. As the countdown was held and resumed, doctors talked to Shepard and pronounced him the calmest man on the Cape. At T minus 2 minutes (2 minutes before launch), as the sun climbed the eastern sky, the "cherry picker" (a jointed crane capable of plucking the astronaut out of his capsule in case of a prelaunch disaster) backed away. At T minus...
...students did not represent a cross-section of youth from New York or the Eastern Seaboard. It seemed that a substantial majority of them were Catholics, mostly Irish Catholics. Apparently the election of Kennedy has not cut off one of the more significant political developments of recent years: the growing tendency for Catholics to espouse conservative political views. (New York liberals and conservatives alike privately admit that liberal movements tend to enlist large numbers of Jews, while conservativism appeals primarily to Catholics.) But while an ethnic interpretation of the rally might be reasonable, a Marxist one clearly...