Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several states, civic organizations now make it a custom to collect discarded Christmas trees, haul them to the beaches, where they trap flowing sand and shore up the dunes, and Boy Scouts plant marsh grass to anchor the dunes. One hardy variety of sea grass that has been developed by North Carolina State University grows 4 ft. high in twelve months. Ocean City, N.J., is experimenting with nylon bags that can be filled on the spot with sand and used as temporary groins. On Wallops Island, Va., NASA has proposed planting plastic seaweed just beyond the surf line to reduce...
...distance medley team. Trey Burns will run the second leg--a half-mile--followed by Roy Shaw in the third leg--three quarters of a mile. Senior Jim Baker, who set a new Harvard mile record of 4:02.2 against Princeton last week, will run the mile-long anchor...
When George Romney resigned from the presidential race, Newman was hailed in to anchor a special report. He handled the same sort of job for twelve days during last year's Arab-Israeli crisis. When Lucy Jarvis produces a big documentary-Khrushchev, Picasso, Christiaan Barnard-she taps Newman for his narrative authority and scriptwriting dexterity. About twice a month, Meet the Press summons Newman to play moderator. Speaking Freely, Newman's urbane interview series with the likes of Harold Macmillan, Rudolf Bing and Physicist Hans Bethe, is so bright, lively and informative that 50 Public TV stations across...
...Anchor Planting. Picked up by a receiver above ground, the data are plotted on deceleration v. time and deceleration v. depth curves that are characteristic of the substance and structure of the soil that has been penetrated. Sandia engineers are already able to tell when the projectiles have passed through materials Ifke sand, silt, clay, water, mud and certain kinds of rock...
...strike, which has put such companies as Owens-Illinois, Brockway Glass and Anchor Hocking temporarily out of the glass business, started seven weeks ago and came after union and industry negotiators had agreed on a new three-year contract that would have provided a package of 710 an hour spread among wages, insurance, pensions and other benefits. Thus the strike was as much against Glass Blowers President Lee W. Minton, 56, as it was against the companies. Calling the proposed settlement "the best offer we've ever had in this industry," Minton urged his union to accept...