Word: lakes
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...Charlotte, N.C., the Coliseum was jammed by a crowd of 14,000 including many Negroes and students. In Salt Lake City, Nashville, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Humphrey savored cheers. After the Viet Nam speech, antiwar hecklers stilled their protests for the most part...
Utah is a peaceful state by any measure. Negroes make up three-fifths of 1% of Utah's population. Yet a Bear Lake resort owner declares that "the politicians ought to move the Negroes back to the South, where they will be happy." A Salt Lake City Mormon bishop says of youthful protesters: "They have been infected by drugs, and the drugs were supplied by Mexicans, Negroes or Chinese...
...London Bridge is going up," sang the 58-voice elementary school chorus. It was indeed, but more for the purpose of attracting tourists than accommodating traffic. The city of London had sold its slowly sinking span for stone-by-stone reconstruction in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a new town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including...
Doug Hardin, the captain, is a Group II quantum chemist who play an instrument called the viola da Gamba in a Baroque trio. He spent half of last summer working for the Atomic Energy Commission and half training with the U.S. Olympic Team at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Doug likes the poetry and art of William Blake and has filled the walls of his Winthrop House room with prints of Blakian angels and devils. "Dauntless Doug," as Coach McCurdy calls him, is the team's foremost expert on the philosophy and psychology of running...
Plague of Alewives. For Middle Westerners who have watched game fish in the Great Lakes virtually disappear, the arrival of the cohos is the best news imaginable. Gone is the plentiful supply of lake trout, burbot, walleyes and pike that once made the lakes a fisherman's paradise. The fierce sea lamprey which invaded the lakes from the Atlantic by way of the Welland Canal, gradually wiped out the game fish. The lampreys were eventually controlled by chemicals, but in their wake came a 6-in. saltwater trash fish, the alewife (TIME, July 7, 1967), which monopolized the lakes...