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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted Churchill's immortal words of that dark hour: "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds." Fight what? Oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Operation Canute | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...some fateful miscalculation, the U.S.-owned oil tanker Torrey Canyon, en route from Kuwait to Wales, had run aground and begun to break up on a reef 18 miles off the southwest tip of Britain; part of its 118,000 tons of crude oil began leaking into the sea. Like great oozy creatures from 20,000 leagues under, oil slicks more than 20 miles long were soon slinking toward southwest Britain's golden holiday beaches, which draw $300 million a year from tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Operation Canute | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...after the 11th century English king who ordered the waves to recede-and got dunked. When all hopes of salvaging the tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with bombs, kerosene, napalm and rockets. At least one-third of the oil cargo went up in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Operation Canute | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...fight the remaining oil at sea, six Royal Navy ships and a small armada of civilian tugs and trawlers scattered thousands of gallons of oil-dispersing detergent. Along the beaches, British troops and civilians bulldozed oily areas, scattered more detergent and strung out floating antisubmarine "booms" to corral the surface scum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Operation Canute | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...faith-healing department, Cayce recommended one or two almonds a day as a cancer preventive, peanut-oil massage for diabetes and, to relieve fatigue, foot baths in hot coffee brewed from used grounds. Stearn arrays-or arraigns-a host of witnesses, almost none of them named, who were snatched from certain decay by the diagnoses that Cayce delivered in his trances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the Public Will Buy | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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