Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life in odd jobs: as a British merchant navy barber and steward and a Liverpool bus driver. Gerald Ford moved from model and lawyer to the House of Representatives, and last August into the White House. Still, the two men have something in common. When Harry dropped by Salt Lake City's Salt Palace to see his son, ex-Beatle George Harrison, 31, now touring the U.S., he ran into Jack Ford, 22, one of the President's boys. Said George proudly to Jack: "This is my Dad. If your Dad is half as good...
...there is a new threat. Paradoxically, it involves chlorination, the process that most U.S. towns and cities use to kill the disease-carrying bacteria in ordinary drinking water. When water from a polluted source, like Lake Erie or the Mississippi River, enters a treatment plant, the chlorine apparently interacts with industrial and agricultural wastes to produce chemical compounds that have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals...
...week, there was a rush on bottled water, and city officials announced that they would investigate the water supply further.) Actually, the link between chlorination and the formation of these chemicals was confirmed abroad. J.J. Rook, a Dutch scientist, added chlorine to contaminated river water and to relatively pure lake water. The concentration of carbon tetrachloride and chloroform rose sharply in the polluted water, but not in the sample from the lake...
...looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." Yet in today's skittish economic climate, most businessmen can only view with envy the profitable growth of the gaming empire headed by William Fisk Harrah, 63. It includes two glossy Nevada casinos-one in Reno, one in Lake Tahoe-along with two hotels containing 19 food-service areas and 18 cocktail bars. In the fiscal year ended in June, Harrah's Inc. of Reno, one of two gambling operations listed on the New York Stock Exchange, raked in a profit of $9.1 million on record revenues...
...suddenly become the center of the most exciting mystery story in world petroleum. By drilling deeper than ever before-as far as three miles into the geological subbasement-Mexican engineers have found a much bigger reservoir of oil than anyone had suspected was there, a subterranean lake of petroleum three or four miles wide and perhaps up to 30 miles long...