Word: niagara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everything seemed normal when Test Pilot David W. Howe eased the LA4 "Lake" amphibian toward Niagara Falls International Airport earlier this month. So he radioed a highly abnormal report to the tower: "Bag down and inflated." Seconds later he landed-without wheels-on a cushion...
...three who spurned state offers of a $1.50-an-hour laborer's job because, he said, he was looking for a better job. He lost his welfare, and although he subsequently took a similar job, he got a 30-day jail sentence from the City Court of Niagara Falls. The court voided Pickett's conviction, implying that such a requirement verged on "involuntary servitude...
SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. G.B.S. comes into his own here, with Arms and the Man until July 15, and Major Barbara from Aug. 16 through Sept. 10. Maugham's The Circle will be performed July 19 through...
Steelhead Hopes. Originally an ocean fish, the alewife could not penetrate very far into the Great Lakes until the 1930s, when rebuilding of the Welland Canal provided it with a convenient bypass around Niagara Falls. Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lamprey-also an oceanic interloper-wiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that were feeding on alewives. Too small a target for the lamprey (which is now being eliminated by chemical controls), and left with no natural enemies, the alewives promptly began a population explosion...
...waved and cried: "I would like to thank you! There are many beautiful and wonderful things to be done!" Then the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers headed down Route 322 for the 111-mile drive back to New York. He spent the day of Summit recess visiting Niagara Falls. Johnson headed for a political dinner in Los Angeles, where, perhaps a bit too sanguinely, he told his audience: "It is good to sit down and look a man in the eye and try to reason with him and to have him reason with you. Reasoning together...