Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...legislation as it was reported out by his Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations. Since "Big Mike" likes to keep all House members happy, every state had at least one slice of bacon. But Kirwan was undisguisedly most elated about his own project. "This is going to be the greatest canal," he bragged, "in the history of mankind...
...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...
...would be based. There are more than 540 candidates -all certified anti-Communists-and last week Premier Nguyen Cao Ky officially opened the campaign with a speech urging his countrymen to "get out and vote." While Ky was promoting the elections, however, the V.C. installed a loudspeaker across a canal from Saigon's warehouse district, began to blare out attacks against them. Another Viet Cong detachment invaded a village ten miles from Saigon, spent the night replacing the government's neatly printed election slogans with their own: "Welcome the Ho Chi Minh Regime...
...CANAL FULTON, OHIO. Canal Fulton Theater: My Fair Lady, through...