Word: basin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot be parceled out piecemeal. I think it would be most useful to estab lish for the office of the President himself a council of resource and conservation advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin, develop the resources for 1970 and 1980." When the U.S. builds "a great dam, I don't think the people should pay for irrigation and have the power distributed by a private company." Also promised: a "maximum effort to get fresh water from salt water...
...time. His audience is still narrow and his appeal is anything but universal. But he is the freshest comedian around; he is a permanent and popular attraction in a nightclub circuit that includes San Francisco's hungry i, Chicago's Mister Kelly's, Manhattan's Basin Street East; he is carefully monitored by fellow comedians and politicians; and his Los Angeles TV shows during the Democratic Convention made him the most entertaining voice within reach of a microphone. This fall, new territory will be opened up by Sahl when he launches a national tour, with...
...touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...
...said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed in a duralumin basin that will be used again! At all previous imperial births, a tub made specially from fresh cypress wood was used, and it was afterwards buried deeply and secretly in the imperial compound...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...