Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilmington...
...British-having been informed by three lately deposed Royal Governors that large Loyalist forces were ready to fight for the King-originally planned to launch their southern campaign near Wilmington, North Carolina. General Clinton arrived off Cape Fear with a small force in mid-March. But Commodore Parker's larger supporting fleet was delayed for two months, partly because of bad winds. By the time the two joined in May, the main Loyalist forces in North Carolina, some 1,800 kilt-wearing Scots colonials led by Allan Macdonald, had been long since routed by Patriot militia in the battle...
...other support equipment needed to put one diver on the bottom today can cost more than $500,000-one factor that gives a firm of Oceaneering's size a competitive edge. Another expensive item is the diver himself. Oceaneering trains its own divers at a school in Wilmington, Calif. Students, most in their early twenties, learn the physics and physiology of diving, later advance to underwater welding, rigging, salvage, photography, even television. The divers are paid handsomely: salaries range mostly from $17,000 to $35,000 a year, and a few divers in Alaska earn more than Handelman...
...modeled on Charles Manson. (Though the advertising implies the woman was actually murdered, it is a hoax.) "If anything should be censored," says Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with Alfred Kinsey of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, "Snuff would head the list." The movie was banned in Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., and Orange County, Calif. In New York City, protesters picketed the theater showing Snuff. Such fledgling porn fighters as Critic Susan Sontag, Historian Martin Duberman and Author Grace Paley demanded censorship and prosecution...
John J. Bradley Wilmington...