Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comedians and novelists alike attested tirelessly to the aromatic glories of the Brighton Beach Express and the Gowanus Canal, the beery, cheery heartland of dock-wallopers and sailors' broads and Yiddishe mammas, the wasteland of peeling tenements where a Tree Grew. Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from Al Capone to Barbra Streisand was congratulated on being from...
...Look! It's Bob Hope!" cried one canal dweller as the aquatic parade set houseboats arocking on a Bangkok klong. Well, almost. On his far-flung tour of the Far East last week, Hubert Horatio Humphrey everywhere displayed his infectious euphoria, dispensed pharmaceutical advice and ad-libbed some passable one-liners. Before leaving South Viet Nam, he was invited by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu to come back and hunt an elephant some time. "I spend most of my time at home," replied Humphrey, "hunting elephants...
...fizzled out and you just can't bear Cambridge for one more day; so on a whim you try the Cape--sand dunes covered with snow, tufts of tall, yellow grass peeking out of the white cover--that kind of thing. And you find yourself driving over the canal, anxious for your first look at wintry Cape...
...relatively modest. The campaign will center on four priority areas (see map). Ky hopes to clear and hold 900 new hamlets, consolidate government control in 1,000 already cleared villages, build 2,251 new classrooms, 568 miles of road, 57 dams, 148 bridges, and dig 118 miles of canal. Equally important is training more cadres, and that will take time. At present there are 22,838 trained men and women in the field, and by year's end, another 20,000 or so will join them. But at least 440,-000 will be required to blanket every province...
...turn to claim that they were being pushed around. If they could not do what they wanted with their own misprints, they said, they would appeal the decision. Then they offered a compromise: how about letting them destroy one misprinted sheet and present the other two to the Canal Zone museum and the Smithsonian Institution? Harris and the court quickly agreed...