Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city could build a 233-mile aqueduct from Owens Valley. The voters overwhelmingly approved a bond issue to pay for it. In 1913 the aqueduct was completed, spilled its water into the "vast stubble field" of the San Fernando Valley*-and to ensure the promise that the water would reach Los Angeles, the little city annexed the valley. In the years that followed, the Owens Valley dried out, San Fernando bloomed, and Los Angeles, which still gets 69% of its water from the aqueduct, crept beyond its boundaries like a flood tide, bringing into its fold other nearby cities, which...
...swim in the Chandler pool behind the square, concrete-block family mansion in the Hancock Park section of town. By 8:30 a.m. Norman rolls out his black Mercedes 300, heads off to the Times building five miles away, where he imperturbably juggles the deskload of problems that reach out from all his financial and civic connections...
...bayou folk swam, clung, gasped and prayed for their lives. Those lucky enough to reach specks of dry land found only more terror: with them were alligators and water moccasins, tossed out of the torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand...
Paul didn't have television. We can reach more people by TV probably than the population of the world was then." Billy is reaching them by TV (the Trendex for the first live telecast of his New York crusade was 8.1 or 18% of the total audience, as compared to Perry Como with 20 and Jackie Gleason with 12.5). More "decisions for Christ," his headquarters reports, come in from televiewers than from the live audience in the Garden. The live audience is alive too: about 58% of the Garden decisions have been first-time public conversions, but only...
...what they call a 'cooperating church'-working with the Graham organization-but we have received three cards: one from a dear old lady who lasn't been to church in 50 years, one from a total stranger whom we can't reach and who won't call back, and one from a devout 15-year-old girl who faithfully attends Sunday school every week here. I've been criticized by some for not cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden...