Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closest they get to nature is the neighborhood park. This week, a committee of New York's Board of Education released a glowing report on an experiment in outdoor education. Last summer, the board had sent 62 fifth-and seventh-graders to a LIFE camp in the lake-&-woodlands of New Jersey. Unlike previous LIFE camps, which have been holidays, this one was on classroom time...
This week, unable even to enter Kim's Korea, the U.N. Commission was ready to throw its problem, right back at Lake Success, ask U.N.'s Little Assembly what to do. And in North Korea, Kim was rushing the creation of a Soviet puppet government which might claim to speak for all Korea-while the Little Assembly was still talking...
...likes to go places and do things, usually decides to go and do them on the spur of the moment. In a little more than a year in office, he has flown to Rio and Buenos Aires, swum ashore from a capsized rowboat on a south Chilean lake, and crash-dived aboard a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso. In his fancy presidential DC-3, he has visited so many local fairs that Chileans are sure his travels already exceed those of all his predecessors put together. Their nickname for their traveling President: "Don Gavion" (Mr. Airplane...
There was talk of crisis in Mexico City last week. Architect Mario Pani and Engineers Héctor Maganda and Armando Oseli separately warned that the capital was sinking. Through thousands of wells, they said, subterranean water was being pumped out of the old dry lake bed on which the city stands. As a result, the whole city sank more than seven inches last year. The Palace of Fine Arts, already six feet lower than its original level, settled still more. Grades changed as Mexico City drank up its own footing...
India and Pakistan's bitter wrangle over Kashmir has lasted more than a month at Lake Success. Both have gone over & over the same ground, disagreed, referred the dispute back to the Security Council, postponed meetings; they suspended their debates after Gandhi's death, resumed private discussions. Last week, for the first time, the Security Council heard from a native of harried Kashmir, one who had come 8,000 miles to make his speech...