Word: tarpon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even other people somehow look nicer-good enough to wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...
...Skillman, N. J. 68 Porvaznik, Paul '61 G 6.0 205 Duquesne, Pa. 69 Wall, Donald '60 G 5.9 210 New Kinsington, Pa. 71 Simon, Clay '59 T 6.3 195 Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 72 Ross, John '60 T 6.1 212 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 73 Williams, Lauren '59 T 6.2 210 Tarpon Springs, Fla. 74 Jones, Richard '61 T 6.1 212 Hasbrouck, N. J. 75 Olivar, Harry '60 T 6.4 223 Inglewood, Calif. 76 King, James '61 T 6.2 215 W. Newton, Mass. 77 Blair, McClellan '60 T 6.4 220 Indiana, Pa. 78 Puryear, Alvin '60 T 6.1 225 Hampton...
...January and again in June, the young officer slated by the Navy to do the job flew to Washington to brief President Eisenhower on the possibilities. Nautilus' commanding officer: Commander William R. Anderson, 37, Tennessee-born Annapolis standout (class of '42), submariner veteran of Tarpon, Narwhal, Trutta, Sarda, Tang and Wahoo in World War II and the cold war, recent staffer in the Atomic Energy Commission. After Anderson's June briefing, the President gave the Navy its orders: Go ahead. And as he pulled out of Pearl Harbor last fortnight and set course almost due north toward...
...powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving to keep himself in trim. In the blue depths off Honduras' Caribbean coast, he hunted unsuccessfully for sunken pirate ships, learned to spear groupers, rockfish and tarpon...
STEPHEN COVEY Tarpon Springs...