Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birthday gifts came streaming into the dusty, desertside capital of Gaberones. From Britain, $40 million for famine relief and economic development. From the United Nations, $15 million for livestock feeding, community development and an anti-tsetse-fly campaign. From the U.S., a $70,000 twin-engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back...
...innings of relief, Drabowsky allowed only one hit and fanned 11. It was a far cry from his 1957 performance with the Chicago Cubs, when he tied a record by hitting four batters in one game and led the National League in hit batsmen for the season...
Kennedy said he deplored the failure of the Boston School Committee to come up with an acceptable plan for the relief of de facto segregation in Boston...
...neon sculpture seems deceptively simple at first glance, sculpture through optics appears hopelessly complex. Mary Bauermeister contributes a lens box, or tri-level arrangement of lenses and optical patterns, some cemented to roating discs. Notes and sketches show that she visualized a rough relief map of her work before she began, and then worked out the specific effects as she went along. The final product is satisfying in its complexity but like all the works at the Rigelhaupt it demands time to be appreciated...
...resettled in new locations, but new refugees pour in daily, and the number living in temporary hovels rose during the same period from 320,000 to more than half a million. Private citizens in the U.S. have sent nearly $20 million in clothing, medicines and cash for refugee relief, and 29 U.S. voluntary agencies staffed by 400 Americans work in the camps...