Word: garrisoning
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...attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
...GARRISON DIVERSION. Quite a different kind of problem is posed by the $566 million enterprise along the Missouri River in North Dakota. The Garrison, 19% complete, would carry water through 1,000 miles of major canals to irrigate 250,000 acres in the dry eastern part of the state...
Opponents of the Garrison say that in order to bring water to its 250,000 acres, the project would disrupt 220,000 acres now being farmed. Runoff water from the irrigated areas would leach salty chemicals from the soil and carry them into the Souris and Red rivers. Richard Madson, a local representative of the Audubon Society, calls the dispute over the Garrison "a classic test of whether the bureaucracy can be slowed down once it's moving...
...wants to stop the bureaucracy altogether is Ben Shatz, who is angry at the way the Government acquired 80 acres of his land that lay in the path of a Garrison canal. The Bureau of Reclamation offered $9,000 for the parcel, which Shatz felt was worth $20,000. When he refused the offer, the Government condemned the land, and he had to go to court to get a settlement of $17,000. Shatz has erected a large sign on his property proclaiming: "My Farm Ruined by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation." Says he: "It will stay there until...
Died. Candace Mossler Garrison, 56, the hard-bitten blonde who was acquitted with her nephew-boy friend in 1966 of murdering her husband, Millionaire Jacques Mossier; from a drug overdose; in Miami Beach. One of twelve children of a Georgia farmer, Candy married Mossier, 23 years her senior, in 1948. He was found stabbed to death in their Key Biscayne apartment in 1964. Candy and her 24-year-old lover, Melvin Lane Powers, were defended by Superlawyer Percy Foreman in a lurid, seven-week trial. They parted a few years later. She was subsequently married briefly to Barnett Garrison...