Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their affluence, the Hestons, their son Fraser, 11 (who played the infant Moses in The Ten Commandments), and adopted daughter, Holly Ann, 5, live sedately in an eight-room house on a ridge high over Coldwater Canyon near Hollywood. His major indulgence is a private tennis court, onto which he likes to coax name pros, who regularly clobber him. Otherwise, "Chuck" Heston, as friends call him, mostly stays inside doing calisthenics and culling scripts. It doesn't bother him to be called a square. "So," he says, "were Moses...
...Massachusetts Committee to Save the Grand Canyon in waging war against ignorance, red tape, time, and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall's dams...
...they lose, half the Grand Canyon will be irreversibly submerged under 650 feet of water...
...bill now in the House Rules Committee which would provide water for the parched Southwest. In order to finance the project, the bill includes plans for construction, of two dams--one upstream from the Grand Canyon and one downstream--to provide hydroelectric power...
...spectacular" movie was actually a series of slides about Glen Canyon, great orange peaks and winding paths which preserved the markings of a lost Indian civilization--until it was dammed. Dramatically, the scene shifts from the Canyon five years ago, to a huge man-made lake which today buries most of it. The same, the audience is told, is now in store for the Grand Canyon...