Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell the tale. Advice on what to do in the presence of a lurking shark was flatly contradictory: one school held that the swimmer should hold still and keep quiet; the other said churn wildly and shout. During World War II thousands of seamen and downed airmen came within reach of the shark's sinister jaws. With air traffic over open water becoming heavier every day, the U.S. Air University painstakingly collected the reports of survivors, has issued a manual called Airmen Against the Sea. Included is an elaborately documented and knowledgeable report on the shark...
...peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love in the hayricks and the difficulty of raising funds to fit his parish house with an upstairs bathroom (which the local water pressure will not reach...
...checked in at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park; 4,000 descended into the Carlsbad Cavern of New Mexico; 8,350 arrived at Yosemite, and 20,000 at Yellowstone. By year's end, estimates the Interior Department's National Park Service, the visitor total will reach 55 million...
Anti-Matter. With the antiproton found, scientists assume that "antimatter" is possible-a symmetrical "mirror image" with all the outward characteristics of ordinary matter but with its electrical charges reversed. Obviously, antimatter could not exist within reach of ordinary matter as it exists on earth. But it may even be common in other parts of the universe. Some of the distant galaxies may be made of such reversed matter. The light from a star of antimatter, says Professor Frisch, would be just like the light from normal stars...
NORTHWEST POWER partnership will get big boost this fall with start of $200 million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...