Word: bayous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future of American higher education lies not only in the ivy-covered buildings of Cambridge and Berkeley but also in the bayous of Louisiana, asphalt jungles of Harlem, and the mountains of Appalachia. The challenge of educating the impoverished is being met by men like Dr. Thomas Johns of Pikeville College. The student reaction shows how difficult the challenge really...
...more beguiling travel writer and a far more gifted naturalist than one expects from an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This account of his meanderings through the wilderness areas of Texas has one major flaw: the Justice gives such a fascinating picture of the glories of the bayous and the wonders of the baygalls that one almost ignores the author's plea for a sound conservationist program...
...distinctly delicate air. But no aquatic plant is healthier or hardier. Few multiply as fast; in the summer months in the tropics, the hyacinth doubles its number once every 30 days. The plant is so prolific that once it takes hold, floating carpets choke rivers, canals, lakes and bayous. It hinders boat traffic and uses up oxygen needed by fish. After years of trying to keep the hyacinth at bay, a group of weed-control experts and navigation engineers-the Hyacinth Control Society-met in Palm Beach to discuss their few successes and many failures with the beautiful nuisance...
...Sailors. Strangest of South Viet Nam's services is the navy, whose duty it is to patrol 1,000 miles of cove-pocked coastline and almost 3,500 miles of inland waterways-rivers, creeks, canals, irrigation ditches and tidal bayous. In the flat, checkered Mekong Delta, waterways have been the main routes of travel for centuries. The 9,000 officers and men of South Viet Nam's navy keep these arteries open with 600 curious vessels, ranging from sampans and junks to converted landing craft. Armed with 20-and 40-mm. cannon, heavy machine guns, even...
...Houston last week, helicopters swooped low over bayous to lay thick mists of insecticide, and fire engines raced from block to block to spray chemicals in vacant lots. Citizens lined up to receive free handouts of bug-killing Malathion, and even kids at play carried spray guns to squirt at anything that flew...