Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientific ingenuity. Dowsers, who used to roam the land with their unreliable witch-hazel divining rods, are no longer adequate-although there are still enough of them around to call a meeting of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. this week in Vermont. Man has taught himself to prospect for new sources of water by seismic refraction and aerial photography. Since World War II, engineers have gone into the remotest valleys to dig wells, build dams, cut canals and lay pipelines. In the U.S., some $10 billion is spent annually on dams, waterworks, sewage-treatment plants, pipelines, canals and levees...
...salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great Lakes, Erie is so close to dying that the states along its shore face the prospect of paying a billion dollars apiece for pollution control...
...Catholic bishops last week approved in principle the text of their declaration on religious liberty. Two days later, the bishops also voted to accept in principle the text of Schema 13, "The Church in the Modern World" - although it, unlike the religious liberty declaration, still faces the prospect of drastic revision...
Obviously the Tenth House will not be able to serve its stated purpose: to relieve crowding in the older Houses. Unless droves of students are allowed to live off campus each year--a prospect everyone connected with the House system deplores--deconversion of overcrowded suites will be impossible even after a new House is built...
Nature's Teaching. For the classically oriented viewer, a prospect was pleasing to the degree that it was orderly. It was not until romanticism emerged around 1820 that the essential dialogue between man and nature was articulated as central theme in the quest of an American idendity. Nowhere is the theme better illustrated then in the current exhibition at Manhattan's Metropopitan Museum selected more then 450 for display in 22 galleries (see following six pages in color...