Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense alert last week (see cut), New York's Mayor Robert Wagner appeared wan and haggard. Wagner recently underwent an operation for a nonmalignant tumor, but his troubled look could have had another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that operates from a city pier. One commission finding: Sanders paid "several...
...most of its upper vastness, the Colorado River Basin has long seemed to be dying of thirst. The Colorado has merely rushed through the landscape, unharnessed for use by man, leaving behind only magnificent wasteland. Last week, as Interior Secretary Stewart Udall inspected the giant dam rising across Glen Canyon in northwest Arizona, it was apparent that the Upper Colorado Basin was at last on its way to becoming a land of incomparable opportunity...
...Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ("How can you" be in a business without knowing the product...
...John Tower, 34, a onetime government professor at West Texas State College-at Canyon-and the only authentic Republican of the lot-is a Nixon-endorsed Goldwater conservative, ran against Lyndon Johnson for the Senate last November and pocketed 41% of the statewide vote, a record in Texas...
...summer the floods brought by the monsoon rains lap under the stilted houses and over the 500 miles of meandering dirt roads. Years ago, someone built a railroad station in Savannakhet, but never got around to building a railroad. The Me kong River, crashing down from a canyon in China's Yunnan province, then slowed by silt and sewage on its 1,600-mile run to the South China Sea, is the principal means of transportation and is known as "the soul of Laos." In normal times, the principal exports are illegal opium and a little...