Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge and Boston citizens and civic groups are preparing formal opposition to a plan that would put apartments, research firms or industrial buildings on a 40-acre platform over part of the Charles River Basin...
...nine-year-old boys fell through thin ice on the Charles River and drowned yesterday afternoon. The double fatality was the first of its kind this winter in the Cambridge area...
Gary Williams and Kevin Brady, both of Allston, were about halfway across the river opposite Howard Johnson's Restaurant on Soldiers Field Road when the ice caved in under them. Two playmates, terrified by the accident, managed to get off the ice and then quickly left the scene...
Fulbright said he and Dulles discussed various possibilities, including one proposal that both allied and Soviet troops be withdrawn a substantial distance from both banks of the Elbe River. This would leave a wide zone through Germany devoid of either Soviet or allied forces. Fulbright gave no details on the discussion about this suggestion...
Elsewhere in western Pennsylvania and neighboring New York and Ohio, record rains (5 in. in 24 hours in Columbus) swished over frozen ground, ran off into rivers like the Olentangy, the Kokosing, the Chagrin and Racoon Creek, swelled them until they overflowed to flood scores of cities and towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first...