Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overriding pressures on the older men, and the irregular development of the younger players bodes ill for LA this year. The Dodger farm system has been guilty of over-production, and the ensuing boom harbors a possible depression. Too much disorganization and surplus of talent will lose ball games...
Starts Wednesday: A poorly-conceived and ill-starred (Dolores Hart, George Hamilton) little comedy called WHERE THE BOYS ARE offers a woefully misleading picture of Florida's Ft. Lauderdale vacationland. Boys meet girls head on--and the naughty little filly that goes too far (here's Hollywood morality for you) ends up in an auto accident. In the hearts of the others, true chaste love has blossomed, and their reward is a quiet kiss in a coupe. Not worth your while. The second feature is some-what more interesting: an Academy Award winning color documentary on the animals...
...articulate, and graceful as a gazelle. He is omniscient; he swallows and digests whole books in minutes; he confounds experts with his superior knowledge of their field. He is omnipotent." Burns was worried, and so was many another Presidential admirer, that John Kennedy and his family might soon suffer ill effects from public overexposure. Wrote Burns: "The buildup is too indiscriminate. The buildup will not last. The public can be cruel, and so can the press. Americans build their triumphal arches out of brick, Mr. Dooley said, so as to have missiles handy when their heroes have fallen...
...been inching inexorably westward ever since the first census in 1790 located it near Chestertown, Md., 701 miles east of the Kleiboeker farm. Thanks to the addition of two new states (and a 28 million increase since the 1950 census), the jump from the old population center in Olney, Ill., is the biggest of the century: 57 miles...
...been an awful fight. Until the 1920s, Mississippi basin flood control consisted almost entirely of unconnected local systems. There were lots of them: Cairo, Ill., for example, at the crucial confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, had dikes that peered down on the city's tallest building. But eventually the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began working out an integrated flood-control system for the whole river network...