Word: seacoast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems of the others, Peru has them all-and more. It is the biggest of the west-coast nations, the heart of the ancient Inca empire, and no place for the timid. "When you see no trees," said one 16th century Spanish navigator, "you have reached Peru." The seacoast capital, Lima, is bigger than Detroit, and sleek modern skyscrapers crowd in on some of the most magnificent Spanish architecture this side of Madrid. Yet 400,000 of its 2,000,000 citizens squat in festering slums, among them the infamous Planeta, built next to a centuries-old garbage dump, where...
...OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. By weaving history, topography, marine biology and lyrical gastronomy around the arduous everyday lives of the French seacoast villagers who tend and harvest the Ostrea edulis, Author Clark has written a book-length monograph on the world's most prized oyster with the same beguiling erudition that characterized her Rome and a Villa...
After a three-hour Cabinet meeting, the Turkish government issued a five-point communique: 1) Greek Cypriot military activities will be subject to reconnaissance flights by the Turkish air force, 2) the Turkish armed forces are being held in a state of alert, 3) on the Aegean seacoast and on the Turkish-Greek frontier in Thrace, the Turks are prepared to meet all attacks, 4) Turkey is providing its NATO allies with all necessary information about its military activities, and 5) measures are being taken to put the entire country, including the civilian population, in a state of readiness...
...OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. By weaving history, topography, marine biology and lyrical gastronomy around -the arduous everyday lives of the French seacoast villagers who tend and harvest the Ostrea edulis, Author Clark has written a book-length monograph on the world's most prized oyster with the same beguiling erudition that characterized her Rome and a Villa...
...international projects have been debated with such fervor or greeted with such optimism as the St. Lawrence Seaway. When it opened in 1959, its proponents prophesied that it would create "America's fourth seacoast," spread prosperity along its banks, and prove a boon to commercial shippers in the U.S. and Canada, which shared the $470 million cost of building it. After five years of operation, the Seaway has not come near to fulfilling that promise. Last week in Detroit, a Senate commerce subcommittee held hearings to discuss the Seaway's troubles and what can be done about them...