Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens' club in Pompano, Fla.-and a crew of 174, the cruise ship headed out on her twice-weekly, overnight run to Nassau. By midnight most of the passengers had gone to bed. At 1 a.m., 120 miles east of Miami, many were awakened by the smell of smoke seeping under their cabin doors. The Yarmouth Castle, a 5,000-ton, 38-year-old veteran under Panamanian registry, was on fire...
...nearby ships, the Bahama Star and the Finnpulp, rushed to the burning vessel and heaved close to. Both launched lifeboats for the passengers, yanked many out of the water after they jumped from the burning deck. Coast Guard helicopters dropped flares to help the rescue. A column of smoke from the stricken vessel rose 4,000 ft.; flames were visible 20 miles away...
...wealth and opportunity for the leisured, complacent life, the compulsion for adventure was far from stifled; rather, it flared forth in a golden age of English exploration and mountaineering. Similarly, but even more so, many Americans of the 1960s refuse to react to prosperity as though it were the smoke from the poppy seed, and instead feel it as the thorn that goads them toward the bold, dangerous and somehow immensely satisfying fundamentals of existence...
...first pilot to fly a sailplane across Mount Rainier. "I see so many people who are in ruts and aren't having fun," he says. "One of them is my own brother. He's still an airline copilot, and he grinds away in bad weather, smelling smoke from the captain and not complaining, because he doesn't have the rank...
...industry, the byproducts of a cleanup often offset part of the costs. Los Angeles County's oil refineries strip smelly hydrogen sulphide from crude oil, convert it to 450 tons a day of marketable sulphur. Boston Edison Co. mines vanadium from its oil-fired smoke, exports it to Belgium. For the nation, air and water cleanups mean a huge saving in dollars as well as in health. An air cleanup alone would save $11 billion a year that is now wasted on extra cleaning, painting, corrosion and damage to crops and property...