Word: basins
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Crimson sailors wound up only six points behind winning Princeton, but could manage only a fourth place finish in a field of 11 in a see-saw version of M.I.T.'s Owen Trophy Regatta held on the Charles River Basin last weekend...
Just the Beginning. As spring of 1961 comes to the high country, work is forging ahead at half a dozen dusty sites on the Upper Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is budgeted at more than $1 billion. But the U.S. Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona...
...throughout most of its upper vastness, the Colorado River Basin has long seemed to be dying of thirst. The Colorado has merely rushed through the landscape, unharnessed for use by man, leaving behind only magnificent wasteland. Last week, as Interior Secretary Stewart Udall inspected the giant dam rising across Glen Canyon in northwest Arizona, it was apparent that the Upper Colorado Basin was at last on its way to becoming a land of incomparable opportunity...
Understroking its opposition all the way, the newly formed combination behind stroke Dana Whitten rowed to a surprisingly impressive victory over Brown and Syracuse on the Charles River Basin course...
...Crimson races will not be the only ones on the Charles this afternoon, as spectators can watch M.I.T. take on Columbia and B.U. The two regattas will be run alternately over the Charles River Basin course, which ends just below the M.I.T. boathouse and the Cottage Farm Bridge. The races, run at half hour intervals, begin at 3:30 p.m. and culminate with the Crimson varsity race...