Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro," he said, "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity and finds himself an exile in his own land...
...regime is clearly headed in the right direction. Its plans for the year even appeal to Representative John J. Rooney of Brooklyn, who casts a dark eye on everything that includes the cost of an ocean trip. Having heard the plans, Rooney astonished his colleagues by conceding that cultural exchange was "good and necessary-if handled properly and with moderation." In other words, no worse than whisky...
...ready, Buddy Roberts maneuvered carefully around the towering fire coral, 25 feet under the ocean off Key West. His tiny quarry, a 1½-in. jewel fish, iridescent blue spots gleaming on the deeper velvet blue of its body, hesitated at the coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
Artificial Ocean. The keeper of a saltwater aquarium is to an ordinary tropical-fish fancier what a Ferrari man is to a Chevy driver. Marine specimens are hard to get, harder to keep, expensive to feed, and demanding of space, time and attention. But they are the most strangely marked and wonderfully colorful creatures on earth-so brilliant that they seem to glow with their own light, making fresh-water tropicals look drab. This is one reason why there are some 250,000 private marine aquariums in the U.S. today, ranging in size from 21 gallons to 50 gallons, while...
Most important factor of all is the development of artificial sea water. Real ocean water is risky because of the tiny organisms it contains, which die and foul it under aquarium conditions. To overcome this difficulty, several commercial formulas have been developed which can be dissolved in tap water with excellent results...