Word: canals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold it to such nations as Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year's civil rights riots in Rochester, by National Guardsmen during the 1963 and 1964 racial riots in Cambridge, Md., by U.S. troops and Panamanian police in the Canal Zone crisis. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara personally tested CS in a training chamber at the Edgewood, Md.. Arsenal 18 months ago, found it "damned unpleasant...
...SUEZ. When Britain, France and Israel tried to seize the Suez Canal in 1956, the Security Council was paralyzed by British and French vetoes, and under the Uniting for Peace formula, the Assembly moved to send troops to patrol the Gaza Strip. The U.N. force thrust an impassive shoulder between Egyptian and Israeli combatants. Its continued presence may not have resolved Arab-Israeli differences (what could?), but today, the Gaza Strip is quiet...
...score is at war with itself. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics are brain-dry and sometimes brain-shy; Richard Rodgers' music is moon-washed, and sometimes soggier than the Grand Canal. The choreography is either a slight or an oversight. In Waltz, company loves misery. The unhappy lovers consort with tour-frazzled Babbitts and an expatriate couple whose marriage is sinking considerably faster than Venice...
...Andean mountains and populate its Amazonian jungles sound visionary to an extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale, of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. The hour of the pioneer, the founder of new cities, must be sounded. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
There Vaughn pushed hard for farm-credit banks and rural roads to open up the interior. Like an oldtime circuit rider, he traveled around the country telling peasants, students and politicians that "Panama's main natural resource is not geographical-not the canal. It is the people and the land. And they must be developed...