At the center of town is a curving stretch of beach, Playa Principal, where colorful panga boats line up offering fishing trips or tours to secluded beaches.

THE hills around the Vernon Valley in northern New Jersey have curving stretches of graded, tree-lined back roads, and almost no traffic.

The main drag is a curving eastern stretch of Riverside Drive lined with low-profile shops, many with their original forties and fifties facades.

As he glided along the curving stretch of driveway, the cloaked investigator summarized his findings and his plans.

For about 70 years, the institutional castles of the Maryknoll mission have lined both sides of the curving stretch of Ryder Road as it changes to Pinesbridge Road.

The curving stretch of corridor had already been restored, the phaser-scarred sections of bulkhead replaced, and the bloodstains leeched from the floor covering.

WHUMP WHUMP Three globes of magenta fire blossomed along the curving stretch of rail.

Kynes scraped his face through sand, turning to look in that direction--nothing except a curving stretch of dune dancing with heat devils in the full glare of the sun.

But in Connecticut, near Middletown, a compromise for enlarging a curving stretch of Route 66, which was first built when Model T's were in vogue, is being worked out.