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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an hour, most of the boats had given up and turned back to port. The rest wished they had. Owner-Driver John Raulerson and a crewman had to be pulled off his wallowing, 33-ft. Tin Fish by the Coast Guard (at week's end the empty boat was still floating somewhere in the Gulf Stream). World Champion Dick Bertram didn't even have time to radio for help. Brave Moppie was blasting along at 50 m.p.h. in second place, behind Thunderbird, when disaster struck. "A red warning light suddenly went on, meaning water in the bilge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powerboat Racing: Madness off Miami | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...grotesque phantasm of further mutilations follows. The Gnadiges Fraulein is a deaf ex-diva (Leighton) who loses one eye and then the other to the coca-loony birds of the Florida Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Penwiper Papers | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...river, its circulation through a plant or building (a process which often raises the water's temperature and changes its oxygen content) and its discharge back into the river. The changed character of the water can mean increased growth of bacteria and algae, as well as death to fish...

Author: By Quentin Compson, | Title: The Charles River: An Evaporating Victim of Pollution, Politics and Poor Planning | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...TOGO Working under the Service des Peaches with Togolese counterparts, Volunteers will assist in running existant inland fisheries in Central Togo and in the renovation and construction of new dams and fish ponds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Directory: '66 Overseas Training Program | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

...Human Fossils. From the size of the building it is reasonable to conjecture that it was inhabited by a group of no more than 15 persons. The inhabitants of the Riviera site were clearly hunters, not fishermen, for no fish fossils or sea shells have been uncovered. And there is evidence that the site was only a temporary dwelling; had it been a permanent home, there would have been more bones and tools around. In fact, because he has found the outlines of as many as five different dwellings on the Nice hillsite, De Lumley has decided that prehistoric hunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Man's Oldest Dwelling | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

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