Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissolve the slick. Botanist Michael Neushul of the University of California recalled the 1957 breakup off Baja California of the tanker Tampico, which dumped 59,000 barrels of diesel oil into the Pacific and "utterly impoverished animal life" in the area for five years. In 1967, when the Torrey Canyon-carrying crude-spilled 100,000 tons into the English Channel, 90% of the animal loss was caused by detergents used to clean up the oil. As for Santa Barbara, Neushul figures that such grazing organisms as limpets and abalones are in the greatest danger. Even as he spoke, oil emulsified...
Secretary Hickel announces plans to build a 32-story parking garage along the walls of Grand Canyon. President and Mrs. Nixon acknowledge the engagement of their daughter Trish to George Hamilton, the actor...
...charged with the job pushing Prescott's students to their physical limits is Roy Smith, 28, a robust English-born mountaineer, who has led students on skindiving trips to the Gulf of California, and on explorations of caves in the Grand Canyon, and organized a student mountain-rescue team. This spring he plans a kayak trip down the Colorado River and eventually hopes to lead an archaeological expedition to Peru and an 1,800-mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge...
...company originated as a track builder for Western railroads. It undertook dozens of rail projects, notably a 725-mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million...
...House passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would limit interstate mail-order sales of long guns and certain types of ammunition.* However, charged the bill's disappointed floor manager, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, the measure left loopholes "aswide as the Grand Canyon." Among the 19 amendments adopted was one permitting gun collectors to qualify as "dealers" and thus become exempt from the interstate ban. Another amendment - a clear victory for the National Rifle Association - would exempt long-gun ammunition from the mail-order...