Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western end of the drought-parched Tamiami Trail, grass fires burned from horizon to horizon, and the sun was nearly blotted out by the bitter brown haze. Smog shrouded Miami, and acrid smoke choked much of the rest of southern Florida. The magnificent Everglades National Park-the timeless, endless "river of grass"-was drying up like a farmer's mudhole in August, and the smallest spark quickly turned into a blaze...
...balancing equation. In recent years, however, man has upset that equation, raising the question whether drought may not be the permanent future of the Everglades. Vast reclamation projects have turned swamps into bean, corn and sugar-cane fields, which not only partly block the natural flow of the Everglades "river" from its headwaters in Lake Okeechobee, but also have first claim on the area's water resources. When water is short, little if any is now left over for the wilderness. Immune for centuries to permanent damage from natural disaster, the great park, a constant wonder to nearly...
...prov ince of Szechwan. Peking wall posters reported that an extraordinary - and almost unbelievable - total of 10,000 persons had been killed or wounded in four weeks of fighting involving ma chine guns, hand grenades and poisoned drinking water. Among the casualties were 200 Maoists drowned in the Yangzte River on the way to a rally, the victims of Red Guards who had defected from Mao's Cultural Revolution and rammed and sunk the Maoists in flotilla-to-flotilla combat...
...River Mills, a medium-sized Virginia textile firm (1966 sales: $281 million), and smaller, North Carolina-based Fieldcrest Mills ($171 million) decided to copy the long-established industry pattern by merging. If stockholders approve a swap of securities worth some $87 million, the merged company will have combined sales of more than $450 million, a strong position as the U.S.'s fourth biggest publicly owned textile company (after Burlington Industries, J. P. Stevens & Co. and United Merchants and Manufacturers), and a new name: Dan River Fieldcrest...
High fliers and others welcome at the Graduate School of Design's annual Kite Flite on the Charles riverbank. Procession to river forms at 1 p.m. Saturday in Sever Quadrangle...