Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very far from being self-sufficient. We have to get many of our strategic materials from southern Africa. There is no major source for chrome other than southern Africa, apart from Russia, and about 80% of the oil required by the Western countries has to come around the Cape...
Democratic Congressman Gerry E Studds, 40, found that fish remained the chief concern of his constituents in Massachusetts' water-girt Twelfth District, which includes Cape Cod. Happily for Studds, the fish were biting, and he was given much of the credit. Known as the "fisherman's Congressman," he sponsored the bill that extends exclusive U. S. fishing rights to 200 miles off the coast Thus Massachusetts seamen no longer have to compete with better-equipped foreign trawlers for the dwindling supply of flounder, cod and haddock. Appropriately, Studds boarded the buoy tender Bittersweet for the annual blessing...
...Califano, the workaholic Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, actually went to Cape Cod for a rest. Vice President Fritz Mondale went fishing in Canada. Jody Powell stayed home a couple of days...
During the 1880s, Bunau-Varilla worked for a private French company that attempted to dig a canal through the muddy, mosquito-filled tropical jungle of Panama, then a province of Colombia. Any canal across Central America would have eliminated the 7,000-mile journey around Cape Horn for ships navigating between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At the time, most U.S. engineers favored a canal at sunny Nicaragua. The crossing there would have been 131 miles longer than at the 50-mile Isthmus of Panama. But almost all of the extra miles would have required no digging, since a Nicaraguan...
...make a dozen or so passes 50 ft. in the air before he bags his cat, made suitably cooperative by the taxidermist. Every once in a while Superman is brought down for an adjustment of his ailerons. He has 25 different costumes and perhaps six different kinds of capes-for standing, sitting, flying and coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind. The changes made, he goes back into the air, accompanied by cheers from local residents who are hanging...