Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Threatened Haven. Sea life and birds suffered a sad fate. Cormorants and grebes dived into the oily swells for fish, most never to surface alive. All along the mucky shoreline, birds lay dead or dying, unable to raise their oil-soaked feathers. Survivors were rushed to one or three centers nearby to be cleaned in a chemical solution, then carefully wrapped to stave off pneumonia and placed in warm pens to recover. Of the more than 500 birds brought in by week's end, two-thirds had survived. The fouled waters threatened thousands of rookeries on the Santa Barbara...
...caused by detergents used to clean up the oil. As for Santa Barbara, Neushul figures that such grazing organisms as limpets and abalones are in the greatest danger. Even as he spoke, oil emulsified by the surf sank to the bottom, killing lobsters, sea urchins, mussels, clams and some fish. Inevitably, plants would prosper at the expense of animals. Said Neushul: "This could lead to a drastic ecological imbalance...
...picked up something of a reputation as a polluter. Only two weeks ago, the company was accused of dumping 1,500 barrels of crude into the Santa Ana River after a mud slide broke a pipeline. Twice in 1967, the company was brought up on violations of California fish and game statutes for polluting Los Angeles harbor. Indeed, its competitors complain that Union is giving the industry a bad name. After the disaster, representatives of oil companies operating rigs off Santa Barbara met quietly to decide, as one participant put it, whether "to take the drop from the gallows together...
...flight paths, he predicts that some $3,000,000 worth of buildings, windows, and furniture would be bomed out of existence on every day of full national SST operations. And in addition to this house-shattering, Shurcliffe says that chickens will suffocate in boom panics, cattle will stampede, and fish will flee from boomed water areas...
...Barabbas? Selling bigger is the Ten Commandments Bible Game, by Cadaco, Inc., of Chicago. Equipment includes a board map of the Holy Land, cards quoting the Commandments, and disks representing pieces of silver and harvest baskets of grain, fish, olives and grapes. To win, a player must collect all Ten Commandments by completing various Good Samaritan acts. Cadaco has sold about 600,000 of the games. And then there is Bible Bowling, in which marbles are rolled down a miniature bowling alley into holes. Depending on what hole the marble lands in, a card 'is selected by the bowler...