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Plumbing fixtures, like everything else, are increasingly decked in "decorator colors"-the most popular, predictable pink. Second most popular is light brown. Floors may be vinyl or ceramic tile, walls may be the latest Italian mosaic, but the commonest materials for wash basin, toilet and tub are old-fashioned vitreous china and enameled metals. The w.c. of tradition is one of the last holdouts against the Plastic...
...Harvard Yacht Club will soon have a permanent sailing pavilion on the Charles River Basin, Commodone David W. Stookey '64 said yesterday...
...Andes. But the most emotional pledge of all-and one echoed by all his opponents-was a promise to do something drastic about International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that owns one of Peru's richest oilfields: the La Brea y Fariñas basin, 600 miles northwest of Lima on the Pacific Coast...
Over the years, the tar property became an oil property, and the original 100 acres grew to cover 416,140 acres of the La Brea basin. By World War I, the area was a major oil producer. A British company, the London & Pacific Petroleum Co., was now the owner, pumping millions of dollars worth of oil, but only paying taxes on 100 acres of land...
...year ago, when they left Rio de Janeiro for their "duty stations" in a long, arid river basin 500 miles away, the volunteers were advised to look up the local officials of the Commissao do Vale do Sao Francisco (CVSF). The CVSF, a federal agency charged with developing the river basin, was supposed to supply Brazilian technician counterparts to the volunteers in each station...