Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place ribbon in a class of twelve, most of them teenagers. Then her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, went to town-Manhattan, where she celebrated her 35th birthday by buying a dandy 15-room, $200,000 co-op at the corner of 85th Street and Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Central Park Reservoir. City officials promise tourist buses will mind the music and step lively when they drive past Jackie's new home; and the whole arrangement couldn't be handier for the family, since Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford live on Fifth at 80th Street, Princess Radziwill (Jackie...
Taylor reported that the water in the MDC reservoir is sufficient to meet the needs of its communities...
Green Acres. First planned by the U.S., until John Foster Dulles withdrew American aid, the project is being built largely by Russian engineers and money. When the $1 billion dam is completed in 1970, a 300-mile-long reservoir-dubbed Lake Nasser, of course -will add 2,000,000 green acres to Egypt's narrow thread of 6,000,000 acres of arable land. In a nation only a third larger than Texas and quite a bit bleaker, that is a considerable expansion, even if it will not by itself cure Egypt's terrible poverty. Egypt...
...announced "win the war" offensive was evidently a success; the troops, he said, would "be home for Christmas." And then the roof fell in. Out of the north swept swarms of "volunteer" Chinese Communist soldiers. Pouring across the Yalu River, they enveloped U.S. Marine contingents at Chosin Reservoir. Swiftly the Chinese pushed the U.N. forces back; MacArthur dug in for a bloody, stalemated, seesaw battle for little pieces of real estate. It was a new war. Christmas came and went...
What talk it seemed to bel Aluminum piping, chlorination, reservoir control. Back and forth the conversation went in quick repartee. Before dessert they had gone on to split system sewage disposal, and then in a postprandial few minutes they dealt to their satisfaction and mine with oxidative water purification...