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...them created in the last 20 years as flood-control projects, which have opened up a whole new recreational world. Vacation houses are springing up around Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock, Taneycomo, and the new Pomme de Terre. In Kansas there is Tuttle Creek Reservoir and Fall River. Even in Minnesota (where the license plates proclaim 10,000 lakes), waterfront property is in short supply...
...basic reservoir of confidence found expression in many ways and many places. Said Illinois Attorney Paul Freeman: "The population increase is still going on. That didn't stop Monday or Tuesday, and it means there'll be good business in the future. The only complaint I have is that my brother-in-law bought A.T.&T. lower than I did." Observed Millionaire Showman Billy Rose, a fabulously successful investor who saw the value of his 80,000 shares of A.T.&T. drop by $760,000 in one day: "I'm not worried about the future...
...Calcutta, world's greatest reservoir of cholera because 5,000,000 people cannot get enough filtered water and are reduced to using the raw, sewage-polluted Hooghly River, WHO is represented by U.S. sanitary engineers planning water supply and sewerage systems to bring cholera and other plagues under control...
...dictatorship on a people-of convincing the discontented that resistance is futile. Most of the diplomats and foreign journalists in Havana (who can no longer count on the frankness of those they talk to) see little chance of a popular revolt, and sense that, though greatly diminished, the reservoir of idealism and expectancy that Castro began with still exists among many campesinos...
...Organs where Dr. Merrill made his report. Seattle's Dr. Belding Scribner carried the do-it-yourself idea a long step farther. Though the irrigation has to be repeated over several hours with a total of about 20 qt. of fluid. Dr. Scribner described a machine with a reservoir and an automatic cycling system with which, he suggested, a patient might be able to treat himself at home...