Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain E. T. Barnette pushed a cargo-laden stern-wheeler ten miles up central Alaska's Chena River, halted when the waters became too shallow, and established a trading post from which, with the gold rush one year later, sprang the city of Fairbanks. Barnette should have settled on higher ground...
...that light penetrating to a depth of 1 ft. is only one-tenth as bright as light on its surface. At 2 ft., it is only one-hundredth as bright; at 6 ft., there is no light at all. Reason: unlike the Amazon's clear-water tributaries, the river does not originate primarily in mountains and course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process...
Leader of the expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50. Recently Williams has been work ing with hormones that are secreted by insects to permit and regulate growth and maturation from egg to larva to pupa to adult. If insect juvenile hor mone comes in contact with larvae at the wrong stage of development, the in sects will not mature. When insects at later stages are treated with growth hor mone, they are killed by developing at too rapid a rate. Moreover, Williams .and other researchers have discovered that lethal equivalents...
...turns into a community sing. She wonders: "What should I do now?" Man in the mezzanine: "Just stand there." Judy: "I get too scared to just stand there?guess I'd better sing." On to more oldies like Swanee. A standing ovation for Old Man River. She sits down, her legs dangling over the edge of the stage for The Man That Got Away. "No more that oldtime thrill," she trills with her terrible intensity, "for I've been through the mill. . ." Many in the audience weep. Some grope down the center aisle to the stage. She leans over...
...Ships are but boards," Shakespeare wrote, "sailors but men." He was obviously a landlubber. Never in U.S. history have so many men gone down to the sea (or lake, or river) in ships (or boats)-and whether they sail a 13-ft. Blue Jay or a 70-ft. offshore racer, they are a breed apart. West Coast fanatics get their kicks out of racing dinky, 8-ft. El Toros around treacherous San Francisco Bay, where a 20-knot wind is just air conditioning. Wintertime "frostbite" racing in tiny dinghies (6ft. to 14-ft. cockleshells with sails) is all the rage...