Word: florida
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...breathe, the water we drink and the land we till. Every infant born in America today has detectable quantities of DDT in his body." Possibly to get away from it all, Piccard announced plans to submerge himself in a four-to-six-week underwater "free drift" from Florida to Nova Scotia next summer...
...World War I. The academic year of elementary and secondary schools has lengthened by one-third in the past 50 years. Today 90% of teen-agers are in high school, against 60% in the pre-World War I days. The increase in travel is equally spectacular. A trip to Florida or California or New York is within the reach of tens of millions who would not have dreamed of it a half-century ago. A trip to Europe is commonplace for many. In 1915, 23,000 passports were issued or renewed by the U.S. State Department; this year the figure...
...citation in public service went to Florida's Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 67, a congressional partisan of medical legislation for 30 years. It was Pepper, then a Senator, who co-sponsored legislation in 1937 that created the National Cancer Institute, the first of the National Institutes of Health, funded with a then grand budget of $400,000 a year. The institutes, now eight innumber, and the Bureau of Mental Health are provided with a combined yearly budget of $1.5 billion...
...shock waves from the earthquake also caused seiches (water oscillations) in rivers, lakes and protected harbors along the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida. At New Orleans, a drawbridge tender felt the span shake beneath his feet, and a sudden rise of from 1½ to 5 ft. in the level of the Mississippi caused docked vessels to break loose from their moorings. In Atlantic City, N.J., (more than 4,000 miles from the quake), the thorough scientists report, water sloshed over the top of a hotel swimming pool...
Director Stuart Rosenberg has chosen such a Florida chain gang as a microcosm of society for his first feature-length film, Cool Hand Luke. Into it, he plunks a hero, Lucas Jackson, doing two years' hard labor for "maliciously destroying municipal property while under the influence ... Knocking the heads off parking meters...