Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of study, Plymouth Laboratory Director J. E. Smith and his colleagues calculated that thousands of sea birds died from being coated with oil or from swallowing it. But except for the rosy-footed summer tourist, few other shore or sea creatures were seriously bothered by the oil. The detergents, however, killed a significant amount of sea life and seriously upset the ecology in many coastal areas...
Thousands of plants along the coast were destroyed or stunted by the chemicals. On one reef, lobsters, shrimp and crabs were virtually wiped out, starfish and sea urchins vanished. In tidal zones, limpets and other browsing creatures that keep shore lines free of decayed material and control the growth of seaweed were decimated. As a result, portions of the Cornwall coast are overgrown with seaweed this year...
...when he did. As managing director of the 107-nation International Monetary Fund-which acts as an arbiter of exchange rates, guardian of fiscal good behavior among sovereign states, and rescue squad for countries in financial trouble-Schweitzer holds a pivotal role not only in the present struggle to shore up the world's money system but also in the reforms that seem certain to come...
Phillips decided to break the united front of oil companies for several reasons. One is that Phillips' holding is the closest to shore and the expense of pumping gas out of the field and into an expanding British pipeline system will be less than the cost to some other combines. Another is that, unlike Shell, Esso and others, Phillips has no large oil market in the United Kingdom and thus does not have to worry about upsetting domestic prices for its other fuels by pumping in cheap natural gas. Listening to the angry outbursts from other oilmen, Phillips...
Died. Juanita Hall, 66, "Bloody Mary" in the stage and screen versions of South Pacific; of diabetes; in Bay Shore, L.I. "Bloody Mary is the girl I love," sang the sailors, and for 1,694 Broadway performances, audiences loved her too, as the scheming, betelnut-chewing Tonkinese mama who belted out Happy Talk, and sang Bali Ha'i with such feeling that she nearly stole the show from Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin...