Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came into this world with nothing," says Herman W. Ryals, a retired civil service worker, "and it looks as though that's the way I'm going to leave it." His lament is becoming familiar among the thousands of Gulf Coast victims of last August's Hurricane Camille. Nothing remains of the crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired...
Kaufmann-who has traveled to the west coast this fall to interview prospective students-said yesterday that "there hasn't been much reaction from the kids" he has interviewed or from their parents to Harvard's spring crisis...
...were up to you and all the other goggle-eyed editors, sunblinded by the exuberance of those West Coast Amazons, it would be compulsory for all females between the ages of three and 30 to live in the Land of Sunny Liberation. As an individualistic New Yorker. T can firmly state that no suntanned, bleached-blonde athlete is going to make me follow in her stereotyped, sandy footprints...
...short time later, the command ship Yankee Clipper separated faultlessly from the S-4B, turned to dock with the lunar module Intrepid and extract it from the rocket's nose. Locked together, the two craft proceeded on a long coast to the moon. Before they bedded down for their first night in space, Conrad and Bean made an unscheduled inspection of Intrepid while Astronaut Gordon remained at the controls of the command module. To their relief, the LM's electronic gear had also withstood the sudden pulse of current. By now the astronauts were in such high spirits...
...more that is learned about the pesticide with the awesome name of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, the more dangerous it seems to be. DDT has been accused of contributing to the virtual disappearance of the peregrine-falcon on the East Coast of the U.S., of causing cancer in mice, and of upsetting whole ecosystems. It is ubiquitous, appearing unexpectedly in Lake Michigan's coho salmon and even in Antarctica's snows, where it is carried by winds. Some scientists fear that DDT, washed into oceans, may kill off the plankton that supplies 70% of the earth's oxygen...