Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Week was highlighted by two teach-ins. At the first, Frances Fitz-Gerald '62, author of Fire in the Lake, explained that the political struggle in South Vietnam will continue even though the shooting war has--at least temporarily--ground to a halt...
Frances FitzGerald '62, author of the best-selling Fire in the Lake, said last night that the Vietnam peace agreements were only one step in a "long, slow, symmetrical" process in Indochina...
...Saturday's contest on Lake Carnegie in Princeton. N.J., had special meaning for the Radcliffe eight. But when it was all over, Princeton had once again played the nemesis, handing Radcliffe a heart-breaking one-second loss over 1000 meters...
Louisiana fared better, thanks largely to the effectiveness of levees and spillways. Twenty-five miles north of New Orleans, officials opened the Bonnet Carre spillway for the first time since 1950, siphoning off 250,000 cu. ft. of water per second into nearby Lake Pontchartrain. Beyond that, water-wise Louisianians did what they have always done during flood season: watched the river and trusted the levee walls...
Many people living along the high, tempestuous Great Lakes were not so fortunate. There is a much lower, less extensive system of water walls along the lakes than along the Mississippi. Heavy rains in the past three years have made the lakes rise rapidly; Lake Erie is 14 inches higher than a year ago, and Lake Michigan is twelve inches higher. Last week 48-m.p.h. winds sent eight-foot waves crashing over the shores of Lake Erie in Toledo and in Monroe County, Mich. Water surged over five square miles inland, and damage along the shore line reached an estimated...