Word: straits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground cheaply to neighboring farmers and, where possible, kept the cherished fruit orchards. Its buildings are painted an inconspicuous earthy green and buff. Near Intalco, at a $50 million refinery, Mobil has built in a system for the bacteriological destruction of poisonous phenols, so that wastes discharged into Georgia Strait are not harmful to sea life. Every year Mobil surveys alternately the health of sea and plant life and the health of oyster and clam beds in tidal waters...
...reference to Mary Frances as being stodgy was made about another performer in the cast. If Mary Frances is stodgy, then Sammy Davis is taciturn, moribund and laconic. For weeks at a time we have to keep her in a strait jacket...
Since taking over only a month ago, he has sent paratroops jumping into the island of Semirara, 180 miles south of Manila in the Tablas Strait, and marines wading ashore at the village of Capipisa on Luzon's south coast in strikes against isolated lairs where outlaws for years have operated with impunity. He has ordered the navy to use its recoilless-rifle-equipped hydrofoils to chase down, -or shoot up-smugglers' boats. He has also reshuffled the constabulary for greater effectiveness, appointed a new customs chief, called for stiffer penalties for smugglers and suspended the director...
...defense. Three SAC bases, near Zaragoza, Madrid and Seville, although now being phased out as missiles take over from bombers, could be used as a U.S. staging area for any trouble in the Middle East or Africa. The great naval base at Rota, on the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar, is an anchorage for America's European Polaris fleet...
Instead they moved the party to an apartment on Western Ave. There his condition became worse, and he attracted considerable attention from neighbors. He was finally subdued with the aid of several people and taken to the University Health Services in a strait jacket. But Stillman Infirmary was unable to accept him as a patient in his condition and rushed him to the Boston facility...