Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket pads at Cape Canaveral have been comparatively quiet for months. Only an occasional missile roars aloft, and to jaded Florida bird watchers, the Atlas-Agena that lifted off last week was far from novel. But this time the familiar workhorse carried a brand-new payload: its nose was fitted with two icosahedrons (two-sided solid figures) about 4 ft. in diameter. And the angular cargo was destined to play a large part in policing the cold...
...quake, which was centered off Cape Ann, about 60 miles northeast of Cambridge, occurred 11:30 a.m. yesterday and was felt from Maine to New Bedford. It was mild and caused no land damage...
Founded in 1924, NUSAS accepts all college students as members "irrespective of race, color, or creed." At present 19 colleges belong to NUSAS, and all students attending these colleges are automatically NUSAS members unless they specifically resign; few have done so. Member colleges include the Universities of Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Rhodes, and Natal, several teachers colleges, and two theological schools...
Antitank Guns. Moving onto Georges Bank off Cape Cod and the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, proliferating Russian trawlers snag American nets, ram smaller boats in the fog and often force fishermen right off the banks; in Alaska, fishermen recently became so furious about Russian trawlers pulling their crab pots that they began ordering antitank guns to mount on their decks, were dissuaded only by a flying visit from Alaska Governor William...
...world's edible fish stock is being fully exploited. The trouble is that the exploitation has taken place in the known and favored areas, mostly within 100 miles of land, where a concentration of effort has often led to a depletion of valuable fish. The Russians off Cape Cod, for example, are out for herring rather than the hake, haddock and cod that most American fishermen are after-but the other species tend to disappear after the herring, their natural food, becomes scarce. Industrial pollution in such nations as Japan and the U.S. has tended to drive the fish...