Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
...telescope cameras have sent back nearly 5000 ultraviolet pictures, primarily photographing the stars lying in the plane of the Milky Way. A satellite was necessary to obtain these pictures because the earth's atmosphere blocks most types of ultra-violet light and makes ground observations in ultra-violet wave-lengths impossible...
...Sixth Workday. The wave of repression is washing over everyday Czechoslovaks as well as prominent reformers. Because flagrant on-the-job loafing has made a joke of recent production quotas, the regime is thinking of adding an unpaid sixth day to the work week. Because some 30,000 citizens (by the government's own, probably conservative count) are living in the West illegally, the regime has canceled 100,000 tourist visas for travel outside Czechoslovakia. Only supervised groups and party members on official business are now allowed to cross the borders into the West...
Proponents of ship subsidies also wave the issue of national defense. "There are still a lot of military people," says Bernard Ruskin, an official of the National Maritime Union, "who think that a ship like the United States, which can carry a full division and can outrun any submarine, ought to be kept up." But after taking account of its huge fleet of transport planes, the Defense Department announced several years ago that it had no need for passenger ships to carry troops...
Stock fever has swept Australia, . which is going through the wildest wave of investment speculation in its history. In Melbourne's new 26-story exchange building last week, somber-suited businessmen, workmen in overalls and pig-tailed secretaries jostled each other in the gold-carpeted gallery to watch brokers screaming for 100, 200 and 500 shares of mining and oil companies. One day, trading on the Sydney exchange reached a record of nearly 36 million shares...