Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital bastion in the Middle East, Aden is the cornerstone on which Whitehall aims to build a stable Federation of South Arabia from more than a dozen disparate sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates along the nether rim of the Arabian peninsula. With easy access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, Aden is also the major staging post and bunkering station in the area and a key base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate" Aden. With...
...time when the Bahamas and the rest of the West Indies are suffering from creeping civilization -even on the best powder beaches, people no longer lie on the sand but on chaise longues, swim not in the ocean but in shoreside swimming pools, at night prefer the soft mechanical thunder of the air conditioner to the sound of the tropical breeze through the palms-Burke offers the uncertain pleasure of putting the escapist back in touch with elemental nature...
...elements, including gold, are found in sea water has nourished a long dream of riches. But try as they would, no seawater miners could recover precious metals in practical quantities. Germany's famed Chemist Fritz Haber spent years after World War I trying to extract gold from the ocean to pay off his country's war reparations. He failed, and finally gave up the struggle. But in Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry) another German chemist tells how he took a long step toward success, using subtle modern techniques...
Last week the first of a series of "Parties for Pierre" was held at the orange-roofed ocean-front home of Salinger's campaign cochairman, Pat Kennedy Lawford. The "Sweethearts" wandered around distributing bumper stickers reading I'M FOR PIERRE, and heart-shaped red balloons inscribed p.s. I LOVE YOU, in addition to the finger sandwiches. When the speechmaking was over, ladies clustered excitedly around Pierre, and he only broke away when a female aide whispered, "Doll baby, it's getting late on the campaign trail...
Peruvians insist that smaller catches are due merely to a temporary shift in ocean currents, not overfished waters. But everyone agrees that too many people are out fishing. "Two or three years ago," says one Lima skipper, "you seldom saw more than 100 seiners fishing at the same time. Nowadays you see as many as 300 go to work on a school...