Word: corals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first photos released last week made a spectacular space travelogue, exceptionally clear and well-defined. From more than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military applications...
Through the 90-mile-wide Straits of Florida separating the U.S. from Cuba runs some of the most bizarre traffic ever seen on any body of water in the world. Desperate Cubans flee north in sailboats, rafts-even inner tubes. At night, weird vessels churn among the mangrove and coral cays on secret missions for no one is quite sure whom. One morning last week, a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat 65 miles off Cuba drew alongside one of the strangest yet: an aged, 165-ft., grey-hulled converted yacht named the Seven Seas, adrift and seemingly unmanned-until...
...someone remarked that the Maldives became free last week, one might certainly be pardoned for asking, "Oh, really? How much had they cost before?" Nevertheless last week the Maldives, a collection of 2,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean (see map), became free...
...thought that your readers would be interested in knowing of yet another use of the Morton Salt Co.'s [May 7] product: making fresh water into salt water for the joy and comfort of the porpoises at the Cape Coral Gardens here in Florida. Fifty thousand lbs. of table salt were initially poured into the porpoise pool. The porpoise couldn't tell the artificial water from the real thing...
...Cape Coral...