Word: channelized
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From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one of the canal's innumerable bends, a $2 billion complex of oil refineries and chemical plants erupts on the landscape. Soon the inland-bound passenger spies in the distance what appears to be a skyscraper, then several skyscrapers, then a full metropolitan skyline. It might be a mirage shimmering...
Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, and Robert G. Gardner, director of the Film Study Center in the Peabody Museum, are directors of Boston Broad-casters, one of the five corporations which have applied to the Federal Communications Commission for authority to operate a television station on Channel 5 in Boston...
...license of WHDH, Inc., which has operated a station on the channel since 1957, expired...
Gardner was optimistic about the corporation's chances of securing a franchise on the channel...
...Southern Negroes work to gain equal rights, Southern segregationists become increasingly frightened. This is true throughout the South, but especially so in Mississippi. Segregationists channel their fear into violence. Most integrationist groups are non-violent, and the Government's agencies are ineffective. This kind of situation can naturally lead to real pogroms, if it lasts. It probably won't last. Among Negro leaders, the tactic of violence in self-defense has become increasingly acceptable. Among Negro people, the constraints of ghetto life have become increasingly intolerable. If the Government does not act to enforce the law of integration, then Negroes...