Word: bays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
...specifically aimed at the Westbay development, which in fact is considerably more enlightened than some others that have been proposed. The commission's mandate, set in 1965, grew out of a 1959 Army Engineers report that predicted an eventual filling of at least another 248 square miles of bay, in effect reducing much of it to little more than a deep-channel San Francisco river...
...bay is still relatively unpolluted; massive garbage disposal in it has been halted. It is still, thanks to its tributaries, a major spawning habitat for Pacific salmon, and its mud flats are a vital source of food to many fish and ocean birds. Its waters provide the Bay Area with a natural year-round air-conditioning system. All this would be destroyed if the bay were diminished. The bay's would-be protectors also point out that the nine surrounding counties encompass more than 7,000 square miles, largely undeveloped, and have no real need to expand inwardly into...
Still, B.C.D.C.'s report represents no victory. The commission's temporary tenure is up next year, and the California state legislature must act on its recommendations if the bay is to be saved. In the meantime, San Franciscans are hoping that the legislators have read Richard Henry Dana...
...most successful trainer and driver in U.S. harness racing, he has won $1,000,000 or more in purses during each of the past four seasons, and in the process produced a steady succession of champions: Su Mac Lad was 1962's Horse of the Year; Cardigan Bay, the wealthiest harness horse ever ($980,000 since 1959); Noble Victory, the two-year-old champion of 1965 and winner of 37 out of 54 races...