Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier race, the JV's fought the whitecaps in the Charles basin to take a big lead from the Middies and never relinquished it thereafter. Water conditions were so bad at the starting line that waves splashed into the shells even when they were not moving...
...ventures," he suggested, mean experiments in interstate cooperation (like the Port of New York authority) or in joint interstate and federal action (like the committee on the New Haven Railroad or the Delaware River Basin Commission...
Throughout all this, the Congo was a weird mixture of choler and calm. In Leopoldville. the central government's capital in the Congo River basin, life for most went on at its slow-motion pace in the sticky heat; but the Royale, the U.N.'s seven-story main Congo headquarters, was alive with activity. Aides scurried in and out of the office of burly Irish General Sean McKeown, chief of the U.N. Congo military force, who was busy reading reports on the fighting and firing off fresh orders to the air and ground commanders in Katanga itself...
...first big U.S. rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...