Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass transportation, aid to education and schemes for aiding the employment of youth. But his State of the Union message made bows to all of these, promised more specific details in later messages to Congress. The President also urged the creation of a domestic Peace Corps-a catch-basin for idealism at home (see EDUCATION...
...months there was talk of an impending divorce between Belgium's tall, handsome ex-King Leopold, 61, and his wife Liliane, 46. But when Leopold returned from a zoological expedition to the Amazon basin, Liliane, handsome as ever, was at the airport to meet him. Dropping his royal reserve for once, Leopold later issued a 414-word statement denouncing "those infuriating and scandalous rumors." His wife, he said, had stood by him "with devotion and tenderness for better and for worse. Thanks to her I found again my family hearth...
...nearly every department and school of the University. Using machines at Harvard and M.I.T., scientists have, in past years, programmed a computer to simulate a complex business operation, to create a "model" river system now being used on problems of water logging and salinity in the Indus River Basin, and to help determine the authors of the Federalist Papers...
...Harvard Yacht Club lost the Schell Regatta to the Coast Guard Academy 133-131, Sunday in the Charles Charles River Basin. Crimson sailors, who had won all six previous events of this season, tied for second place with M.I.T. for the Erwin E. Schell Trophy. Saturday racing in the regatta, normally a two-day event, was cancelled because of high winds, the sort of weather the Harvard club considers itself best in. On Sunday, although racing was hampered by light and unpredictable winds, seven of the twelve scheduled races in each of the two divisions were sailed...
...lake lining of seepage-proof polyethylene plastic only six millimeters thick (asphalt and clay break up under water after a time; cement is too expensive). The two top companies in the field, both in California, are Palco, Inc. of Indio and Kepner Plastics of Torrance. In a bulldozed lake basin, plastic is laid down in strips up to 40 ft. wide and 400 ft. long at the rate of about half an acre a day. The strips are sealed together (one company uses heat, the other mastic and tape). The resulting seams are buried in twelve-inch trenches and covered...