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...tuna that he took from his kitchen shelf. To his astonishment, the first can tested at .75 parts per million of mercury, 50% above the .5-ppm level considered safe by the Food and Drug Administration. How did the mercury, an industrial waste, taint the tuna, which live in midocean? No one yet knows. But following FDA tests of Grand Union and Van Camp brands last week, thousands of cans of tuna have been removed from stores in six states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, where the tuna was originally packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths" in midocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: With the Moan of the Wind And a Barrel of Beer | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...From the King James Bible to Scandinavian modern furniture to LSD, some of the best and worst of culture in the U.S. has been imported. With the rise of U.S. power and affluence, much American music, cinema, art, design, ballet and theater have begun to meet and marry in midocean with their European counterparts, forming a sort of Atlantic culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN WAY | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Unbeknownst to anybody, Skipper Long had steered Ondine 250 miles out to sea-maintaining radio silence. "We steered more for speed than for course," he said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing: A Certain Elation | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...Jack, Bobby and Teddy were in a boat that was sinking in midocean, who would be saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Big Splash at Hickory Hill | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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