Word: corallis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find out what happened to the plant and animal life that once inhabited these coral islands, a team of University of Washington radiologists, sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission, have made an extensive, five-week survey. They report findings that seem to suggest that if ever men are foolish enough to pull the nuclear trigger-and fortunate enough to limit the area of conflict-the earth may not become a wasteland after...
...delinquent. Then, crying "The only authority we recognize is President Johnson," the islanders grabbed spears, clubs and stones, which they had hidden in the sand, and attacked the Australians. Battered and bleeding, the tax collectors fled to their boats, injuring themselves further as they stumbled over the sharp coral. Three days later, when a reinforced police patrol flew in from Rabaul with steel helmets, shields, tear gas and rifles, they found Lokano deserted. Everybody for miles around had vanished into the swampy jungle to wait in safety till Johnson could arrive to liberate them...
...coral-and-palm flyspeck 1,300 miles northeast of Australia, Nauru has an area of 8½ square miles and a population of 2,700. Only 100 years ago, it was a virtually unknown battleground of savages who guzzled coconut toddy and sported necklaces of human teeth; in 1852 the Nauruans inhospitably chopped up the entire crew of the visiting American brig, India. Since the turn of the century, however, life for the islanders has been one long enchanted evening...
...idly waiting around for the Aluminaut to show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical such sustained jobs as oil-well drilling...
...been fished from the ocean bottom off Florida's east coast. With every reported haul, more and more Sunday divers take to the water, propelled by bubble-bright dreams of gleaming doubloons and pieces of eight, of jeweled swords and brassbound chests of bullion nestled in the coral...