Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city of Agra last week and, while his aides looked on aghast, seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders. Making a ten-day tour of India, the commander of the Russian navy was acting like the traditional sailor on shore leave. He viewed the Taj Mahal by moonlight, visited the Nehru Museum and the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated, and shopped for souvenirs. But Admiral Sergei Georgievich Gorshkov's trip to India had an entirely serious purpose, as do all his trips these days. He is trying...
...when it is recommissioned this April. Last week the Navy Department revealed that Alexander had exercised the most ignominious prerogative open to a blue-water sailor: he formally requested that he be relieved of his command of the New Jersey. The request was promptly granted, and he was given shore duty...
...Rockland, Me., Kuralt went out on a fishing boat and reported: "From Calais down to Kittery, the lobstermen agree: Maine lobsters are, as they say Down East, 'scarcing up.' " The report ended with Kuralt seated before a shore dinner: "We should add, reassuringly, that the lobster has not vanished, though this one is about to. Maine lobsters are more elusive than ever, but just as tasty as ever when consumed with drawn butter on an expense account...
...employs nearly 2,000 people. Each week they address and service more than 12 million magazines, books and records. To expedite this exacting, highspeed task, Time Inc. has broken ground for expanded facilities in a 404-ft. tower that will rise just north of the Chicago River, near the shore of Lake Michigan...
...countries in the world that China has continued to cultivate scrupulously through the otherwise convulsive xenophobia of the Cultural Revolution is Tanzania on the Indian Ocean's western shore. China has even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a railroad connecting Tanzania and Zambia, a plan that the World Bank rejected as uneconomic. Such generosity might well contain the seeds of a quid pro quo: a Chinese monitoring and tracking station in Tanzania when Mao's rockets are ready to whoosh down the Indian Ocean range...