Word: ferns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars stepped off the bus wearing oiled boots, scruffy knapsacks, faded blue jeans. Bright-eyed, they talked of things and places far removed from everyday city life: of lady fern and sorrel, of landmarks with such strange-sounding names as Evolution Valley and Tuolumne Meadows, of high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough...
...that happens to her again, Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18, and her parents have called off a second coming-out party, which was to be held at Christmastime in a Philadelphia hotel. The money will go to a local boys' school-"a much better cause," allowed her stepfather. Said Fern: ".It was the only thing to do. This whole deb business is getting me down...
...while a horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When a patient dies and his body is unclaimed, it is wrapped in a fern-and-palm-leaf shroud, laid in a wooden box, and buried in the bush...
...wasteland of sand and water. It covers more than 50 million square miles and extends almost halfway around the earth. Its inhabitants hunt goats in fern-forested Kauai. and missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with peculiar names-Samos, Discoverer. Midas, Nike-Zeus-whose flights are scratched across the sky in weird contrails and tracked by missile-watching machines on a California mud flat and in such far-flung outposts as Alaska, Hawaii, Kwajalein and Christmas Island. The PMR-for Pacific Missile Range-is the nation's largest testing...
Some experts believe that the fern's explosive growth is caused by nutrients in the lake water; when the nutrients have been exhausted, they argue, Salvinia will not grow so fast. Even more optimistic is a group that is trying to make Salvinia a valuable local crop; if ways can be found to harvest it cheaply, it might prove to be acceptable cattle feed, and protein extracted from its leaves might be good food for humans. One Rhodesian industrialist claims that dried, compressed Salvinia might make fine fiberboard. But none of these schemes are working yet, and the little...