Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...makes amends in Royal Jelly, where the plot is nobly saved by an ingenious double ending. Some of the others earn high marks: William and Mary features a neat and neatly solved contest between a wife and her dead husband's brain, which lives on in a basin; Georgy Porgy shows how a man can literally lose himself in a woman...
Sherburne (Killington Basin)--14-30, 2 powder, excellent...
...plan got going, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Director Edward J. Cleary, ex-editor of an engineering magazine, set up headquarters in Cincinnati. With his tiny staff (now eight) he set out to persuade about 1,000 basin towns and cities to build sewage-treatment plants that cost up to $150 per capita. Junior chambers of commerce, boy scouts, newspapers and other civic-minded organizations moved behind local bond-issue campaigns. Cincinnati invested $60 million; Pittsburgh's $100 million plant opened last year. With smaller cities often taking the lead, the total outlay mounted past $500 million. Today...
Sunlight & Sea Water. Today, as in Malthus' time, the world has vast amounts of empty space left-particularly in Australia, Africa and Latin America (where the rate of population growth is even higher than in Asia). Brazil's vast Amazon basin, amounting to nearly one-twentieth of the land surface of the earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet...