Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mention where she was born. In the Playbill for Wholesale, she said that she was born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon. It was easy enough to believe. After two martinis and an expense-account steak, Barbra's Pharaonic profile and scarab eyes suggest the Aswan High Dam, Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however, she was born and raised between Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal...
Only the walking seems old-fashioned enough to be eccentric. Almost any Sunday, Cheever's small figure may be seen tramping on the back roads around Croton Dam trailed by his two Labradors. His lined, nut-brown face, like that of so many Americans of the middle class, is that of an aging schoolboy, and his clothes that schoolboy uniform-tweed jacket, khaki drill pants and scuffed loafers...
...decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress? The Malpasset Dam disaster stirred public demand for a legal solution...
...Malpasset Dam, which broke on Dec. 2, 1959, nearly wiped out the French town of Fréjus and drowned more than 400 people. Among the dead was a young man named André Capra...
...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 in the fields. Under the new Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project, U.S. farmers were using irrigation water to leach out excess salt from their...