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...could count on a reassuring new introduction to Charlestonese-and a vague understanding of what the natives were talking about: Lord Ashley Cooper's Dictionary of Charlestonese* compiled by Columnist Frank (Cheaper by the Dozen) Gilbreth and published by the Charleston News & Courier, was selling like tiny bay shrimp on the streets of Charleston last week. So popular was the dictionary that Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was persuaded to insert it, in its entirety, into the Congressional Record...
...complex as the problems of flight itself. Hunched over green-glowing radarscopes in 35 stations across the nation stand ARTC (Air Route Traffic Control) men, who follow and guide airplanes flying through heavy weather or at sky-streaking altitudes on Instrument Flight Rules. Moving their transparent markers ("shrimp boats") alongside little blips, they warn of nearby traffic, give directions, order changes in headings and altitudes. If a plane is a 550-m.p.h. jet, the controller gives the pilot 100 miles' clear space ahead, 100 behind; prop-driven planes get 35 miles. Through controllers and towers, miles of Teletype wire...
Unsafe Place. Clearly visible when the dust settled was a white flatfish about one foot long. It seemed healthy and it had eyes, although the nearest trace of sunlight was more than seven miles overhead. Swimming six feet above the bottom were a shrimp and a jellyfish, neither of them bothered by the enormous pressure on their bodies. The very fact that these creatures were living and healthy proved that the water had oxygen in it. Therefore it must circulate, because if it were stagnant in the trench, its oxygen would long since have disappeared. One immediate conclusion: ocean trenches...
...cooking water and seasoning, almost every bite of the appetizing meal she placed before her guests had been washed, cut, peeled, shelled, precooked, mixed and apportioned by "factory maids" long before it reached her hands. After cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (frozen), Mrs. Holstein began her meal with shrimp (frozen) in cocktail sauce (prepared), a green salad (fresh) with Swiss dressing (from a bottle...
...Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet in 1956, now ships giant shrimp and red snapper to the U.S. and the Caribbean as fast as he can freeze them...