Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lens that can magnify up to 45 times beyond the capability of the naked eye. Sure enough, the plants on the balcony were pot. A few hours later, armed with a search warrant, the seeing-eye detectives returned and counted 323 marijuana plants growing around the house. Inside, they found two lids of smokable grass and almost half an ounce of cocaine...
When Carew missed seven weeks with a hand in jury, the Angels found one bright spot: the play of his substitute, Willie Mays Aikens, named for the famous centerfielder and born the month that Mays and the Giants were destroying the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series. Angel luck being what it is, Aikens later wrecked his knee, and is out for the year. The last straw was the injury to Pitcher Jim Barr (10-12), one of eight Angels who have signed contracts of over $1 million. After the team clinched the Western title last week, a young...
...months, radioactive tritium had been leaking from the American Atomics Corp. factory in central Tucson, Ariz. The plant, which used the substance for luminous signs and watch dials, had shut down in July after state investigators found a tritium-tainted chocolate cake in a nearby kitchen that supplied lunches to 40,000 city schoolchildren. Radiation levels higher than normal were also found in the urine of local residents and in the water of a parochial school swimming pool. Rather than fight to retain its license, American Atomics decided to leave the state. Said Company President Peter Biehl...
...bane of Tennessee politicians and the butt of barroom jokes. For four years the lowly snail darter, a finger-size species of perch, blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River. Because the creature was found only in these waters, it was entitled to protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. But it also provided legal leverage for environmentalists who saw the dam as a pork barrel that would deluge 16,000 acres of fertile farm land and wipe out Indian historical sites...
...most women quit work earlier than Jacobson and Cook, indications are that not much time is being lost because of pregnancy. A 1977 Defense Department study showed that Army women lose an average of three working hours per month because of pregnancy. A Navy study done the same year found that women lose less time than men, partly because of the male penchant for alcohol, drugs and general roistering. Females miss an average of 4.22 days a year, compared with 7.03 for males...