Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manzanita is Spanish for "little apple"-a reference to the tiny berries nestled amid the 4-ft. shrub's shiny green leaves and pink blossoms. Indians used to boil manzanita leaves to make a medicinal tea to treat venereal disease. There are about 50 types of the plant, but the Presidio variety has been dying out as developers paved over its habitat...
...keeping the exact location of its shrub secret to protect it from plantnapers. Already, people have been spotted skulking around the Presidio base in search of it. "It's quite a handsome ground cover and would make a nice addition to someone's garden," says Rare-Plant Expert Alice Howard. What will happen if the Sixth Army gets hard pressed? Threatens Howard: "We'll call out the vigilante corps of the California Native Plant Society...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ordered on July 1 that construction of the $2.5 billion nuclear plant at Seabrook, N.H., be suspended on July 21 until a study of the effects of the cooling system on the marine life in the area is completed...
...least until after shareholders of both companies vote in late August or early September to approve the linkup. All LTV has said is that it will not close Youngstown's Indiana Harbor mill, near Chicago, which could feed raw steel to Jones & Laughlin's Hennepin, Ill., processing plant and give the enlarged combine a fully integrated facility in the Middle West. While the two companies are complementary in some ways, they also have redundancies. LTV has promised that the merger savings will lead to profits, and with that as an objective, most steel people expect as a consequence...
...their catchers, Frank Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain in the Army nor look skyward for a popup. For pitchers they had Denny Galehouse, who had kept his deferment by working during the week in a war plant, and a brawling drunkard named Sigmund ("Jack") Jakucki...