Word: shores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lakehurst, N.J., last week Captain Marion H. Eppes, commander of the naval air station, received orders to suspend the U.S. Navy's blimp program. By next December, all but two of the Navy blimps still in service-on shore patrol and early-warning defense missions-will be deflated and folded away; within another few months, the last of the Navy's "bloopy bags" will disappear from the skies. And so will end an often disastrous, but sometimes glorious saga of the nation's military history...
Weidman never takes risks. Within sight of shore, however, he can be impressive, and the best story in this large collection is very good indeed. An Easy One tells of a boy and his mother traveling in a train. The boy is bright, and prattles loudly the names of the states and their capitals; the mother is slightly cheap and not interested. A businessman moves in and buys the mother a drink. The boy fights back by sulking. The man counters by asking him another state capital. The boy says he does not know, and is silent when his mother...
Under mutual aid agreements worked out three months ago, the central banks of Western Europe last week were supplying the Bank of England with gold and dollars with which to shore up the pound. But the only thing that could strengthen the pound permanently would be a spurt in Britain's industrial growth rate-currently among the lowest in Western Europe. Said Selwyn Lloyd: "For national economic survival, we must grow . . . We must see to it that wages, salaries and other incomes remain within the limits justified by increased productivity...
Like Capital Airlines, which earlier this month merged with United Air Lines, Northeast is in part a victim of CAB's ill-advised attempts to strengthen weak airlines by granting them additional routes. To shore up Northeast, which began as a regional carrier in New England, the board five years ago granted the line the right to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route, which Eastern and National Airlines were already flying. Against such entrenched lines, Northeast could not attract enough passengers to make money for itself, and it cut so deeply into Eastern's and National...
...South Shore Music Circus(off Route 3A--Ev 3-1400) will produce The Pleasure of His Company,with Faye Emerson and Reginland Gardiner (opening June 26); The West Side Story (July 3); The Flower Drum Song (July 17); and Take Me Along (July...