Word: downstreams
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...river water so heavily with chemicals that the citizens howled; on its best days, the river gave off the medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens. For decades the river cities and towns complained to each other about the mess coming from upstream, contributed to the mess downstream. Then a determined Cincinnati pressagent, rushing in where poets refused to paddle, launched a 25-year cleanup drive that is only now beginning to restore the Ohio's purity and beauty...
...doubt as to the quality of this year's crew was dispelled last week when the varsity broke the downstream record in both its two time trials. On Wednesday it covered the four-mile distance in 18:50, and Sunday it clocked 19:16 under slightly slower, but still excellent, conditions. Downstream record for a race is 19:21:4, set by the 1948 Harvard crew while the previous time trial record, also set that year...
Happily, the four boaters cruised south for 125 downstream miles, beyond Candlestick Spire toward the roily confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. There Pilot Del Rich stopped to help another boat, which was hung up on a sandbar. The rest of the Friendship Cruisers moved past and out of sight. Rich set off after them. Time and again the boaters had been warned to turn left and head upstream into the Colorado, not downstream. But Rich unthinkingly took the wrong turn and cruised on into the white water of Cataract Canyon. It was a human mistake-past the point...
...have little chance. Up and down, 6-ft., turbulent swells bounced the cruiser. It capsized. Father Frank Rich was heard to scream: "Here we go." Those were his last words. Del Rich pulled his wife from under the boat, and they clawed to shore, watching father and mother bob downstream. Exhausted and distraught, they prayed. Then they limped upstream over sharp limestone, looking for help. "Someone will come," said Penney. "We were not saved from the water to die on the shore...
Last week the ice started grinding downstream, setting off a siren that brought everybody in town to watch the ice batter at the pole. At 11:26 a.m., May 8, the clock stopped. Holders of the eleven winning tickets, worth $8,454.50 apiece, ranged from a Fairbanks truck driver who had been betting on the Nenana lottery for 30 years to an Anchorage oil-company employee who had been in Alaska less than a year...