Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopeless search. Five days earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea's coastal villages of Agats and Atsj, Mike Rockefeller's native catamaran capsized in the swelling Arafura Sea. Mike dived off to swim for help through waters infested with sharks toward a swampy shore swarming with crocodiles. After a companion who stayed with the boat was rescued, New Guinea's Dutch officials ordered a search for Michael. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a jet for $38,000, flew out to join the hunt. "I could never forgive myself," he explained, "if I didn't do everything...
...rhythm of Negro music and singing, with magic borrowed from a dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
General Maxwell Taylor, just back from a fact-finding tour of South Viet Nam, conferred at the White House with President John Kennedy on what steps the U.S. should take to shore up President Diem's government. Kennedy still opposes sending U.S. combat troops, but may agree to the dispatch of 1) U.S. Army engineers to repair the flood damage, 2) logistics experts to improve the inefficient supply system, 3) more anti-guerrilla trainers, and 4) helicopters to give government troops greater mobility in the nightmare terrain...
Hope for Coalition. The U.S. is counting heavily on Balaguer, and would like to see the sanctions lifted to shore up the economy. But Balaguer has critical problems that must be solved before he can convince the OAS that the Dominican Republic is a stable country proceeding toward democracy. He would like to form a coalition government that would include some elements of the old Trujillo regime along with the more moderate of the opposition groups...
...skilled at navigation as bird watchers like to believe. The Truro radar spotted many of them being blown out to sea at night by strong northwest winds. Apparently they did not know, in the darkness, that they were off course. The radar often picked them up heading back toward shore as soon as dawn came, as if in search of familiar landmarks, before they continued flying on their planned migration...