Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projects and private developments. Under the rehabilitation program, it has handed out $1,000,000 in 20-year, 4% loans since the beginning of the year to help landlords to save whatever is worth saving, chiefly the solidly built brownstones scattered throughout the area. Another $5,000,000 will flow in the near future. "With these loans," says Herbert B. Evans, Negro vice chairman of the city's Housing and Redevelopment Board, "we can go into the lousiest damned area in the city and do something. Some of these landlords have just quit...
Kits promoting the tourist pleasures of Forbidden China have been sent to thousands of travel agents. Chinese consulates now grant tourist visas in a startlingly quick three days. The result has been an increasing flow of travelers and fellow travelers from almost everywhere except the U.S. (neither Washington nor Peking will permit Americans to enter...
...deep-down waves are vertical fluctuations similar to surface waves, but instead of rolling across the sharp interface between wind and water, they travel in transitional zones between water layers of different density. No one knows what causes them. It may be the turbulence of bottom currents flow ing over ridges and valleys of the sea bed; there may be a connection with the rotation of the earth. Some of Dr. Pochapsky's buoys rose and fell 100 ft. twice a day, although the surface far above them moved very little with the tides...
...Squares" come in all sizes and shapes. However, they have in common the fact that no rules whatsoever govern the flow of traffic As many as ten streets simultaneously spew cars and people at odd angles into these open areas, and the closest thing to navigating a square in Boston is driving around in an open field. Pedestrians close their eyes and sprint across. None of the dulling certitude of Washington here. None of the blandness of our push-button society. It's man against nature, or what passes for nature these days--the motor...
...White-Sneakered Amateurs." But even as the torrent of testimony continued to flow in public, the real shaping and shuffling of the platform planks took place in the nighttime privacy of hotel rooms, where drafting subcommittees worked till dawn. Frustrated by the Goldwater forces' kill-'em-with-kindness strategy, anti-Goldwater leaders fell to squabbling among themselves. Scranton-supporting committee members, led by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, wrote 31 different drafts of a proposed civil rights plank before they could agree...