Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried and I still think he's the next Mayor of Boston." says one clearheaded, knowledgable Boston politician, "but Kevin White's election isn't the sure thing we thought it was going to be." This somewhat pessimistic statement is representative of the general feeling across the river as the Boston Mayoralty campaign sputters into its last weeks...
Thus inspired to imagine guerrillas huddled in a candlelit cave pondering the pages of TIME, we got to reflecting on the effects of stories in the magazine, and decided to pass on a few cases in point. ¶Two months ago, Science reported on findings that a major Brazilian river, the Rio Negro, had all the characteristics of a perfect insecticide because, during flooding, it sapped chemicals from neighboring vegetation. Brazil's Minister of Interior said his office had not known of the phenomenon; he encouraged wide publication of the TIME story in the Brazilian press...
...arid state. In deference to his seniority and his power as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the Senate has passed his Arizona bills three times-most recently last August when, despite their economizing mood, his colleagues approved a $1.2 billion appropriation for the project, along with five other Colorado River plans...
...committee on the other side of the Hill. Colorado's Wayne Aspinall, chairman of the House Interior Committee, and a crusty young whippersnapper of 71, has effectively blocked the bill because his state-along with six others-shares the source of Arizona's water: the Colorado River. Unless Colorado's share of the water was guaranteed Aspinall was not about to let any of Hayden's proposals leak out of his committee. After Hayden's latest bill was passed in the Senate, Aspinall simply ignored it, just as he had promised he would. When...
...Spiritual Regeneration Movement" has spread quickly outside India. Transcendental meditation is now practiced by an estimated 100,000 followers in 35 countries from Denmark to New Zealand. Headquarters of the spiritual empire is the Maharishi's academy on a shaded, 15-acre site overlooking the sacred Ganges River at Rishikesh, 130 miles north of New Delhi. When the guru, a bachelor, is not proselytizing about the globe, he resides at Rishikesh in a simple, red brick bungalow, where he often meditates for 20 or 30 days at a stretch. His bedroom is air-conditioned...