Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political science major, David plans to study law on the West Coast after college and confesses he would like some day to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Julie took a semester's leave of absence from Smith to campaign for her father this fall, but David merely reduced his course load. Julie will doubtless need the extra time after November to fuss over arrangements for the wedding-though she will not say when it might...
...national park, which will open to hikers and campers in a few years, comprises 58,000 acres along Northern California's coast in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. Half the acreage comes from three small state forests that stretch south from near the Oregon border for about 33 miles along the coast. The Federal Government will complete the park by buying up the land in between the state parks from timber companies and private individuals for $92 million. Sequestered within the park will be 32,500 acres of virgin redwoods, including the world's tallest (367 feet) tree...
...only 3%, industry is stagnant and the country's infrastructure is outdated. Per capita income is $400 a year, the illiteracy rate 40%. Though the economy is underdeveloped, Salazar has clung grimly to an increasingly costly empire; its colonies extend as far as Macao on the Chinese coast and Portuguese Timor in the East Indies. Tiny Portugal is cast in the unlikely role of Africa's last major colonial power. With 125,000 troops fighting three little-publicized wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, the country spends 40% of its budget on defense...
...game fish. The lampreys were eventually controlled by chemicals, but in their wake came a 6-in. saltwater trash fish, the alewife (TIME, July 7, 1967), which monopolized the lakes. Four years ago, the Michigan Department of Conservation tried a bold gambit: it transported coho roe from the Pacific coast in the hope that the fingerlings would adapt to fresh water and feed on the plague of alewives...
Cleaver--currently on trial in California for attempted murder--will lecture two new courses, Social Sciences 5 and Social Relations 148. The date is still tentative as Cleaver's trial may keep him on the West Coast...