Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also appointed were Henry J. Irwin '60, of Washington, D.C., and now with the Nubian Expedition of the University of Colorado in Wadi Halfa, Sudan; Terence P. O'Brlen of Victoria, Australia--biology; and Steven Vogel of Beacon, N.Y.--biology...
...Down in the East Room, the Marine orchestra begins to beat out easy rhythms like Tea for Two and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody-no twists, no bouncy Latin numbers. Now Lyndon is in his element. "He went around and around, dancing with all the ladies," said Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall. "He wouldn't pay attention to anything else...
...Chamizal dispute on the Rio Grande has been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues to bother the Mexicans, and Lopez Mateos gently prodded Johnson to devise a speedy solution. It concerns the Colorado River, which rolls through the arid U.S. Southwest and down across the line into Mexico...
...Arizona, the Colorado has made the desert bloom. But by the time the river crosses the border, the Mexicans complain, the water has been used and re-used so often for irrigation of high-alkaline land that it is "poisoned with U.S. salt." Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the Colorado for irrigation purposes, and guaranteed Mexico 1,500,000 acre-feet of water each year. Mexico built a dam, dug irrigation canals and before long brought the once-desolate Mexicali region to life. But in 1961 the water became too salty to drink, and cotton died...
...international law, Mexico could make a case against the U.S., charging stream pollution. As a temporary measure to dilute the brine, U.S. engineers pump fresh water into the Colorado...