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...Governor Richard Celeste, surveying his once lush farm fields, sadly compares them to "sand dunes." In the South, where all outdoor watering has been banned, residents are using "gray water" -- what is left after bathing and showering -- to sprinkle plants and flowers. Along the normally wet Columbia River basin in Washington and Oregon, there is not enough water to irrigate all the fruit orchards...
...archives to be catalogued include the papers of Arthur A. Shurliff and his son, Sidney N. Shurliff--noted Boston architects who planned the Charles River Basin; and the papers of Josep Lluis Sert, a noted Spanish architect and former dean of the Faculty of Design...
...cope with the dreaded big one. ! However, the jolt seemed likely to create a new eagerness to prepare. "You can have drills and drills, but it's not reality to people,"observed one emergency official. Last week the quake realities became frighteningly clear to millions in the Los Angeles basin...
Nobody seems to mind, or much notice, run-of-the-scandal trash such as the movie Stripper Fanne Fox made, Posse from Heaven, after she became notorious in 1974 by getting caught at the Tidal Basin with Congressman Wilbur Mills; or The Washington Fringe Benefit, the book put out by nontyping Secretary Elizabeth Ray after the whoop-de-do over her 1976 affair with Ohio Representative Wayne Hays...
...bandstand in the living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool in his kitchen...