Word: lake
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Died. Rupert Fothergill, 62, Rhodesian game ranger who headed "Operation Noah," a five-year (1959-63) rescue effort that saved more than 6,000 warthogs, monkeys, snakes, lions, elephants, rhinos and other wild beasts from the rising waters of a man-made lake behind the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Rhodesia...
...plain but safe haven in public housing projects specially designed for the elderly, which offer low-rent living to those who are physically, if not financially, able to go it alone. Chicago shelters 9,250 aged tenants at 41 special sites, including the huge Britton I. Budd complex near Lake Front Park. There Martin Smith, 82, pays $55 a month for an apartment that he feels is better than his daughter's $195-a-month place, and complains only about his arthritis...
...Utah flats spread out against the lights of saltworks. Salt Lake City came all too quickly, and the bus left us off on the outskirts of town. Bill got a ride from a Volkswagon with only one free seat, and I was stuck for a long time up on a mountain. Snow fell for about an hour and I tried to light a fire under a bridge, but it didn't catch solid enough. A cowboy picked me up and left me at some cowboy exit: I was alone for too long. I scratched out an SOS sign, and after...
Friday, Emerson, Lake and Paimer in Concert On Film...
Merchant ships moved through the Suez Canal last week for the first time since the Six-Day War eight years ago. In preparation for the canal's formal reopening on June 5, the West German freighters MÜnsterland and Nordwind sailed to Port Said from the Bitter Lakes along with 13 other ships. The rusting carriers had been trapped there since the canal was blocked in 1967. Discerning a parallel between the preparations for the canal reopening and the broader peace negotiations that have made it possible, Egyptian Cartoonist Salah Jaheen in al Ahram last week drew President...