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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1977
Page
22
New York AP reports a free Kodak Gallery exhibit titled Men of the Sea running July through October 15. The show uses photographs artifacts and films to explore life aboard five sailing ship types and daily life beliefs from the 19th century including piracy superstition mermaids and sea lore along with shipboard food punishment and rituals.
In Johannesburg a black man, Chrisostome Magubane, was fined 200 rand for kissing the cheek of a white woman, Miss Amour Loren, in an crowded elevator at the main post office. Loren testified she was injured in her dignity by the unsolicited kiss and the man’s remark. The judge noted a non insulting act within one race could become insulting across races.
Canadian marine biologists proposed tagging lobsters with numbers for study but the plan stalled as crustaceans shed shells during growth. A tattoo artist balked at needles near their claws. Lobsters were placed in alcohol saturated water and tattooed before sobering up, undermining the method.
Washington reports National Geographic says clams in chowder may be aged toward a century. Dr Ida Thompson of Princeton outlines growth ring work on ocean quahogs to link hinge plate rings with age, noting 25 percent of samples near 100 years.
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