Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sparkling waters of the Karun River on one side of the Zagros mountain range and at the parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
Arnold W. Bloom of Rhode Island State and Riverdale, N.J.; Jerry W. Brougher of the University of Texas and Calvert, Texas; Charles J. Christenson of Cornell and Chicago; Jerome H. Clark, of Amherst and Darien, Conn.; Arthur P. Contas '52 of Chestnut Hill; William J. Dickson, of the University of Arkansas and Rogers, Ark.; James A. Fowler, of Oxford and Cambridge, and Hempstead Heights, England...
...school," says Architect Richard Neutra, "is essentially a container out of which organic life can bloom." At the Kester Avenue elementary school in Van Nuys, Calif., life can bloom both indoors and out. Rooms can be made big or small with movable partitions; the furniture can be moved about for any sort of activity. "I do not consider a school only as a machine for learning," says Neutra. "It should be beautiful...
...Burma project is no more ambitious than one the partners are already developing in Iraq. On the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, they are engineering a $555 million project to reclaim the Tigris-Euphrates valley from its encrusted alkalis, make it bloom with crops enough to feed the entire population of 5,000,000. Their ditches are following the course of those put down by another Army engineer, Alexander the Great. "He picked so well," says Near East Boss Abbett, "we found we could not improve...
...Honolulu, sometime Violinist Jack (Love in Bloom) Benny got together after 45 years with his old violin teacher, retired Yale Professor Hugo Kortschak, who remembered him as 14-year-old Benny Kubelsky at the Chicago Musical College. "My, how you've grown," said the professor. Benny, a grown-up 59, recalled that he "was crazy to be a concert violinist. But I'm like most golfers-I like to play, but I never practiced." After the chat, the professor remarked on the pity of it all: "He probably would have gone far. He showed a lot of promise...