Word: artesians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom have man and mission been better mated. Humphrey may not, as the President once boasted, be the world's "greatest coordinator of mind and tongue." He is nonetheless a man of artesian eloquence and visceral conviction, of bright spirit-which his first name literally means. For the President's purposes, moreover, Humphrey's fame as a liberal crusader has assured him a respectful hearing from foreign governments and segments of American society that had discredited the Administration's motives in Viet Nam. As for Humphrey, he has risen to the challenge with...
...Tokyo's supermodern Olympic Village last week, drilling crews were digging furiously in four places at once. Storage holes for pole-vault poles, perhaps? No. They were emergency artesian wells. With the 1964 Olympics only eight weeks away, the world's biggest city (pop. 10.6 million) was running out of water, and fast...
...Sheriff of Baker County, L. Warren Johnson. It was an historical setting. For it was here that former Sheriff Claude Screws twenty years ago dragged another Negro, Bobby Hall, by the bumper of his car into the next county and then around the same courthouse. Stopping at the Artesian well located at the eastern edge of the courthouse, Screws beat Hall to death...
...trouble comes partly from the artesian wells and methane gas taps that weaken the substrata on which the city is built. During storms the lagoon's water tears at the ancient buildings. Similar erosion is caused by the waves of the numerous motorboats, patronized by those too impatient to use gondolas...
...stomachs distended by bilharziasis. Young girls in ankle-length dresses go gracefully by with water jugs balanced on their heads. Most will be married at 15, lie on their deathbeds at 40. Many peasants still drink from the filthy canals, scorning the "weak" water supplied by a new artesian well. Life is so cheap that a professional killer can be hired for ten dollars, and it is not uncommon to see a gunman walking casually down a dusty road holding a large, white sunshade in one hand and a gun in the other...