Word: gulf
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With its warm-water ports on the Persian Gulf, Iran has been a target of Russian imperialism since the days of Peter the Great. Its attraction for the Communists in the Kremlin is even greater than it ever was for the Czars. The world's fourth largest exporter of oil, Iran, as a member of CENTO (formerly the Baghdad Pact,), is an essential link in the defensive tier along Russia's southern border. The U.S. has poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock...
...nation's most ambitious project for converting salt water into fresh water was dedicated last week at Freeport, Texas. From the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,000,000 gallons of sea water will be pumped daily to a $1,246,000 plant being built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. Plant's purpose: to produce potable water by a distillation process for $1 or less per 1 ,000 gallons, the lowest cost anywhere in the world...
...many students of the art rank as the world's first historical novel. Cyrus' name meant "shepherd." and his father was Cambyses. "the small King of the Persians' who ruled the Three Tribes living around the settlement called Parsagard, about 250 miles west of the Persian Gulf. Under Cambyses, the Persians were a peaceable lot. They kept few slaves, dutifully paid tribute to Astyages the Spear Thrower. King of the Medes, and lived by five things: "The seed grain, the tools that plant it, the water that gives growth, the tame animals that cultivate...
Besides these disparities among state laws, Ploscowe is bothered "by the gulf between the laws and what he thinks are the prevailing U.S. patterns of sexual behavior as shown by Kinsey-type reports. "Sex offense legislation presently on the books," says Ploscowe, "is largely unenforceable, and much of this legislation does a great deal more harm than good. Few branches of the law have shown such a wide divergence between actual human behavior and stated legal norms...
...seen in Puerto Rico; the bird is common in Haiti. Florida is experiencing an egret explosion: two years ago, Florida's cattle egret population was 5,000; today it exceeds 15,000, and the sociable birds have been spotted in every state along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. One wanderer, apparently lost, flew aboard a ship 200 miles off the coast of Newfoundland; another was shot by a farmer near Portland, Me. who complained it was upsetting his chickens. In the mud-and-mangroves Everglades National Park, where there are no cattle, the wily egrets trail tourists...