Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue-hulled Britannia knifed through the choppy swells of the English Channel. As it passed the last of the shore stations, there was a radio exchange of traditional signals. "Whither bound?'' asked the shore transmitter. The yacht replied: "Destination unknown-high seas." Later that morning, under a brilliant sun, Princess Margaret, in a red sweater and skirt, and Tony Armstrong-Jones, in blue blazer and white slacks, lay back in deck chairs on a secluded sundeck. From the topmost point of the mainmast fluttered Meg's personal standard...
Next to the Great Nile itself, Egypt's most awesome geographical feature is the Qattara Depression. Shaped like some splayfooted giant's footprint, this enormous sinkhole in the desert west of Cairo begins with a heel 35 miles south of the Mediterranean shore and then runs southward into the desert for some 185 miles. Covered with rock salt and slimy quicksand, Qattara is as desolate and lifeless as anything this side of the moon. Only generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces...
...Navy demonstrated the early results of Lieut. Commander Draim's idea. A group of Navy hands took a pickup truck to a lagoon at Point Mugu and unloaded a crude wooden missile about 6-ft. long. Navy frogmen put it on a rubber raft, paddled 200 ft. from shore and dumped the model overboard. It floated upright with the point of its nose in sight...
...frogmen returned to shore, paying out an insulated wire as they went. After a short countdown, an officer pressed a button, sent along the wire an electrical impulse that touched off a small, solid-propellant aircraft rocket in the model's tail. The model rose sedately out of the water, climbed to about 60 ft. and plopped down again. It all looked too easy to be true. Nothing but water was needed to hold the rocket upright, and only water was affected by its blast. Even if the rocket had carried 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel...
...developed that glands from Angora goats gave patients an enduring stench, so stinkless Toggenberg goats were used. Brinkley showed flair approaching genius by allowing his suckers to choose their own goats, much in the manner, as the author observes, as one could pick his own lobster at a Maine shore restaurant. Later, the goat doctor refined his pitch: "Operations performed according to your selection; you pay only for what you choose." The suckers hobbled in, and the money, at $750 for the standard implanting operation, began to pile up. The "doctor" began to dress like a swell, circumcised the Prince...