Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that weren't enough, Stiles had to remove the runway after each vaulting session to make space for the baseball team which also trained in Briggs...
...that the world was able to learn of it, the Communist vs. Communist fighting might just as well have been taking place in outer space. Communiques from both sides grew increasingly Delphian, as if the combatants were joined in a conspiracy of silence. Despite the official statements-which invariably included grossly exaggerated accounts of dead and wounded-Western analysts believed that up to 150,000 Chinese regular soldiers, arrayed across all of Viet Nam's six northernmost provinces, had captured or laid siege to eleven districts and at least 20 towns. The Chinese claimed to have destroyed six missile...
...major discouragement for would-be water rats is the parlous shortage of dock space. There's a three-to four-year waiting list at Miami's city-maintained Dinner Key Marina. Southern California's spectacularly beautiful Long Beach Marina has been booked solidly since the day it opened in 1956. Many private marina owners will not accept live-aboards because of their demands on dockside services. As a result of berth control, there is a whole subsubculture of hide-aboards, who tie up what looks like a weekend cruiser and then surreptitiously move in, lock, schlock...
...Storage space is almost as tight as on a spaceship, and living quarters are as cramped as they were for Captain Bligh's midshipmen. Says a California boatwife: "When you cook corned beef and cabbage, everything you wear next day smells like corned beef and cabbage." Miamian Tom Dixon, 35, who inhabits a relatively spacious 45-ft. catamaran houseboat he designed and built, notes that his 360-sq.-ft. living area is the equivalent of a one-car garage. Even at a dock, high winds and storms can make a boat dweller feel as if he were inside...
...Phipps Hoffstot '79, vice-president of the Procellian Club, which owns the Holyoke Street property, declined to comment on plans for the space vacated...