Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's varsity sailing team defends its Greater Boston Championship in a race in the Charles River Basin today...
...President Lawrence S. Reed, 58, who spent almost ten years buying and selling oil leases before they took over Texas Gulf in 1941. The Reed brothers have also been adept at oil prospecting. Their greatest strike was the 150 million bbl. Headlee Field in West Texas' Permian Basin. But that was in 1952, and the costs of finding another one like it today are staggering. The best prospects remaining are Louisiana deep holes that cost $700,000 each to bring in, or offshore wells that can cost up to $10 million each-prices only the majors can afford...
Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis; Columbia) has an ominous ring to it, but the trumpet sounds reassuringly earthy and much better behaved than it has in its owner's recent past. Especially memorable: Basin Street Blues, a poignant narrative of lasting sorrow in Davis' well-known brooding approach...
Germany's Ruhr, the great Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley complex, Russia's Do nets Basin - the areas where vast resources and power combine-long ago made their fabulous mark. Another of the world's great areas, in the eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its potential. It sprawls, bigger than France, in Brazil's temperate heartland (see map). It is called Minas Gerais (pronounced mee-nesh jer-aye-eesh). However exotic the words sound in Portuguese, they simply mean General Mines-a most pedestrian description of a land of beauty and wealth...
...conditioned hotel was built at Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen. Business boomed-and now it may go on and on. When Lake Nasser has filled its tremendous basin, tourists will be able to float to the temple door, where the huge statues of Ramses II, their saw wounds healed and inconspicuous, will be waiting to greet all visitors...