Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Endorsed by the Army Engineers. Knowles Dam is part of the huge development program for the Columbia River Basin. But Babcock argued that the dam, which would ,,back up a 40-mile lake, would flood 9,000 acres of irrigated land, harm Montana's forestry industry, submerge three towns and displace 1,284 persons...
...vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried his own chips...
...held the College spell-bound for the better part of an hour early in examination period: about the same time John Briston Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan's enterprises seem...
...House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted to buy his vote, leading President Eisenhower to veto the bill and the Senate to investigate "campaign contributions" from gas lobbyists...
...official of the sailing team said last night that "if Sullivan succeeds in sinking his barge, he will mess up the entire River basin." Sullivan owns the land on which the Crimson sailors may eventually anchor their boats...