Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MIDWEST. Near St. Louis, Six Flags Over Mid-America is a corn-belt version of its lively Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
...Cedar Falls, Iowa...
...digs next door, but Amy Carter calls her new tree house home. Situated in a secluded thicket on the south lawn of the White House, the 4-ft. by 5-ft. platform is raised on wooden stilts and can be reached by shinnying up a sturdy old Atlas cedar. Amy introduced her 20-month-old nephew Jason, son of Jack and Judy Carter, to her leafy perch last week, and even her dad, says the First Child, "climbed up here once." The architect of the project is the President, who remembers well his own childhood tree house in Plains...
...last year lost thousands of cattle to poisoning when a fire retardant called polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) was accidentally mixed with feed, were faced with a new nightmare. Alarmed by the open sores developing on his cattle and the growing number of stillborn calves, Dairy Farmer George LeMunyon of Cedar Springs called in investigators. They discovered that cattle in his herd, and those on at least seven other farms in the state, have been ingesting a wood preservative called pentachlorophenol (PCP)-probably when the animals licked the sides of their feed bins. Because the preservative contains dioxin, a substance related...
...gravel roads to keep down the dust. Trouble was that some of the fuel, a solvent, was heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of highly toxic chemicals that have been implicated in birth defects and nervous disorders. Environmental officials were notified; they located the contaminated solvent in Cedar Falls and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before it had been used. Had the solvent been spread on Iowa's roads, it could have found its way into animals, food and water supplies. The result, said officials, would have been an ecological catastrophe that could have endangered the health-and perhaps...