Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position in the undergraduate's life, it was then one of the least participated in--and least regarded--of the many extra-curricular activities at the College. The Harvard Dramatic Club, the acknowledged leader of student drama since its inception in 1908, was in bad financial shape after a barren year in which othello was its only production. There were other organizations to be sure --The Hasty Pudding was still attracting its certain audience; and two very localized House Groups, the Lowell House Opera Society and the Winthrop House Music Society...
Typical of today's company towns is New Cuyama, a California community that sprang up from the sagebrush after Richfield Oil Corp. made the state's biggest petroleum strike of the decade in a barren desert valley southwest of Bakersfield eight years ago. Determined to create a community that would match its underground wealth, Richfield sold 201 model homes at cost to employees, put up a handsome shopping center and leased it to independent merchants. The company also provided a $75,000 community hall, a $250,000 motel-restaurant, a $20,000 playground, plus land...
Hong Kong, which Author James Michener calls "the pearl of Asia." From it's high hills visitors can look north across the border to the barren red hills of Communist China; they can spend an evening at the stylized Chinese opera, tramp up and down narrow "ladder" streets and take a 40-mile boat ride down the coast to Portuguese Macao, which will give Americans their best look at China...
...shade of a chilly, barren mountain called India Muerto (Dead Indian), 9,000 feet up in the northern Chilean Andes, lies the world's newest major find of copper ore. The discovery, says Roy H. Glover, board chairman of Anaconda Co., "is the greatest and most important development in copper mining in Chile since the initiation in 1914 of Chuquicamata" -and famed Chuquicamata is the world's biggest copper ore body. Last week Chile's President Carlos Ibañez gave Anaconda* an official go-ahead to spend $53 million toward making Indio Muerto an active producer...
Bhave has collected gifts amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...