Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservation-minded brother Laurance, the commission urged that New York and New Jersey (which has 21 miles of the river's west bank) join with the Federal Government to form a Hudson River authority with major responsibility for cleaning up the river and ensuring orderly growth in the broad Hudson Valley. Estimated cost: $1.3 billion...
India is the world's richest market for smugglers. One man who took a fling at reaping some of those riches sat last week in a maximum-security cell in Bombay's city prison. He is Daniel H. Walcott, 39, a broad-shouldered, persuasive Texan whose profile is known to readers of Interpol circulars the world over. Pilot and swashbuckler, he operates under at least four aliases and has been charged in half a dozen countries with a variety of violations, from running an illegal transatlantic passenger airline to swindling and espionage. Says an Interpol official: "Mr. Walcott...
From the beginning, Hedda was blessed with eternal middle age. She began her show-business career in 1913 as Elda Furry, the plumpish daughter of a Quaker meat dealer in Hollidaysburg, Pa. She had little acting ability -but that little carried her to Broad way, where she met and married Headliner DeWolf Hopper, 32 years her senior. The marriage was a failure. In 1922 they were divorced.* It was her last public failure...
Eons ago two long rivers cut parallel valleys down the sides of the southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
...proclamation of national emergency,...Kissinger argued that the Soviet Union would be more impressed by a broad and sustained improvement in American military readiness than by a single dramatic gesture, especially one which made us appear "unnecessarily bellicose, perhaps even hysterical." Moreover, if we declared the emergency now, we used up a measure which would be more effective if taken as a response to clear-cut Soviet provocation...