Word: dam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire is Prince John, his dam Peroxide Blonde...
...sensuous, ecstatic translinguistic apprehension of the plenum can collapse in a terrible, almost instantaneous plunge into the void of negative silence." Actually, the ads that are stuffed into the box are as entertaining as anything else. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asks the Sierra Club, fighting a dam downstream from the Grand Canyon, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling...
...when a young teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...
...more evidence about Marmes man and how he lived, the W.S.U. scientists are digging farther into the site. But time is running out. In December, a new dam across the nearby Snake River will begin creating an artificial lake that will eventually flood the site. Although digging for Marmes man has already cost more than $100,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Park Service, the scientists have asked for another $70,000 to continue their digging until the waters rise...
They will probably get it, says Magnuson, who makes no bones about supporting archaeology and sponsored a bill that became law in 1960 requiring the National Park Service to explore any archaeological sites threatened by dam building. The Senator can speak with some confidence. He is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that controls appropriations for the National Science Foundation...