Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross can still help 20th century man explain himself to himself...
...continuous loss leaves three-quarters of the island with no streams or lakes to supply fresh water. Now, as a serendipitous byproduct of volcano research, scientists have found new freshwater sources that may not only enable Hawaiians to move into previously uninhabitable areas, but could also help meet the needs of the island's growing population for generations to come...
...Hilo Bay, the scientists estimate, the discharge of fresh water amounts to 100 million gallons a day. Using the infra-red data, the U.S. Geological Survey has just published an atlas of Hawaii's coastal areas pinpointing the location of the underground fresh-water flows. The maps will help Government and private developers to find sites for wells that can provide fresh water for the construction of communities in coastal areas where none existed before...
...Geological Survey's EROS (Earth Resources Observation Satellites) program, hopes to have it aboard a satellite by 1969. Once in operation, it might serve to find water under deserts, chart the best locations for wells and discover new hot springs for resort sites. It could even help the U.S. Internal Revenue Service by searching the Southern hill country for the hidden cold springs that are needed for the operation of illegal stills...
...Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the role stamps - as well as their trickier cousins, prizegiving promotional games - play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant...