Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles takes up where Western Avenue ends, and you can follow this grand river in either direction. Towards Boston and the ocean it widens, a polluted but still grand expanse dotted on breezy days with the flash o sails. Walk the other way, and you're back to Harvard, Tech Hifi and Belgian Fudge...
Teddy Kennedy this week will be camping in the cool Berkshires. Ronald Reagan is taking off the entire month of August. Jimmy Carter hopes for an interlude soon on an ocean island, savoring a fisherman's solitude. Not Baker...
...greet vips at Lusaka International Airport was made in the hated land of apartheid; many of the delicacies served at the Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link from Zambia through Tanzania to the Indian Ocean, is almost a writeoff. The railway works, but the port of Bares Salaam cannot cope with the tonnage of copper that Zambia would like to export by that route. The result is that to export its copper Zambia has been paying heavy transport and port costs to Tanzania...
...incongruous sight. Two miles offshore from the hotel-lined beachfront, two giant dredges toil away round the clock, scooping up tons of sand from the ocean bottom. Heavy, 27-in. pipes carry the grayish slurry to the beach. There it is deposited in large, neat mounds, until the fresh sand is spread out by large earth-moving machines. Under way for two years, the controversial $64 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers is aimed at nothing less than saving one of the nation's vacation landmarks: that fabled stretch of the Florida Gold Coast known as Miami...
...London meeting of the International Whaling Commission (I.W.C.), which overwhelmingly voted to ban hunting of all whales (except the still numerous minkes) by factory ships on the high seas; only coastal whaling will be permitted. The I.W.C. also approved creation of a whale sanctuary in the Indian Ocean...