Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nashua River flows into Fitchburg, Mass., with one of the biggest amounts of trout in the East. Above Fitchburg, it is Grade "A" and people pipe it to their houses to drink. In Fitchburg, half a dozen paper mills run the length of the river inside the city limits. They dump everything from acid to corrugated box refuse into the river. As the Nashua leaves Fitchburg, you can almost walk across it. It is grade...
...smoking a pipe...
...firms of Mannesmann and Thyssen will deliver 1,200,000 tons of 56-inch steel pipe, designed to withstand extreme cold, to Russia. The Soviets need it for pipelines to open the natural gas reserves of Siberia, the world's richest. In return, the Soviets will send to West Germany 52 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, starting in 1973. To enable the Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm...
Gradual Thaw. Most important, the pipe-for-gas trade indicates that trade relations between Bonn and Moscow are less and less influenced by the cold war. Seven years ago, the Germans had arranged to sell pipe to the Soviet Union, but the deal was blocked by the NATO strategic-goods embargo. Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged that he thumped his fist on a table and roared: "Even pants buttons can be called strategic goods. How are soldiers to hold their pants up without buttons...
Andover, which has been considered a Harvard "??? club" in past years, was sub-par this year, and disappointed a small but ??? contingent of alumni and parents. One departing alumnus tugged at his pipe and moaned. "This is the worst Andover team in nine years...