Word: corallis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cong; it is also the westernmost possession of the U.S. in the Pacific. The U.S. acquired the 210-sq.-mi. island after the Spanish-American War, lost it to Japan during the chaotic week following Pearl Harbor, and regained it by a bloody amphibious assault in 1944. Ringed by coral reefs, its jungles studded with wild orchids and rusting Japanese tanks, Guam (pop. 76,500) is a melange of Chamorro, Spanish and Japanese stock, yet fully American in its attitudes...
...Cape Kennedy. Only one galleon survived. Captain Ubilla and more than 1,000 of his men drowned. The battered remains of the ships' hulls sank in 30 feet of murky water. Spanish recovery crews, pirates and poachers, hampered by deceitful currents, sharks, barracuda, moray eels and needle-sharp coral, recovered only $6,000,000 worth of the cargo...
...idleness. Last week Charles de Gaulle, nearing the end of an odyssey that b gan three weeks ago in riotous Djibouti, took time out as the Senior Citizen of France in its island colonies in the blue Pacific. In Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials in crisp kepis stood side by side with their British counterparts in pith helmets...
Died. Eugene Boerner, 73, rose hybridizer, who in 46 years at Jackson & Perkins, world's biggest rose growers, developed more than 155 new varieties, and the coral and gold "Fashion," only U.S. rose ever to win nine major awards; of heart disease; in Clifton Springs...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a noise ordinance adopted by the city commission in June has set the allowable loudness for appliances so low that contractors are hesitant about installing any more air conditioners until the manufacturers have managed to reduce the noise. The prospect worries the makers because modern compact machines are noisier than they used to be, and the engineers are not sure what to do about it. Noisier still are the so-called heat pumps, those outside installations housing large fans to fill the house with heated air in winter, cooled air in summer. Heat pumps recently installed...