Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief preoccupation for many months, and did a little politicking in favor of Democratic Congressmen who need his help in November. But he kept going back to the theme of the cities' problems. In Buffalo, he studied with obvious distaste a bucketful of sludge from a river that feeds Lake Erie, vowed that he would press the fight against pollution-mostly a result of the cities' industrial waste-so that "this great inland sea will sparkle again." In Syracuse, he scored those who "line their pockets with the tattered dollars of the poor"-and promised to "take...
...000th car. Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
...beginning of the summer, the Summer School Administration expressed concern over the possibility of friction between its students and local youths. Early in July, Dean Baird said he was worried about a mixer across the river in Briggs Cage, because large numbers of girls would have to walk back to their dorms late at night...
Swimming in these rivers proves nothing about piranhas; not every square foot of the Amazon River system is infested by them, any more than every patch of our Rockies is covered with mountain lions. Our guides also bathed every day-generally toward the middle of the rivers where the water flowed freely...
...last week Steele had been nick named "the Galloping Glacier." Presently moving at what scientists described as a "spectacular" two feet an hour, the river of ice, 22 miles long and more than a mile wide, had traveled some five miles in "pulsating surges," shearing through adjacent mountains and destroying everything in its path. What made Steele unique was not its movement-glaciers often shift-or even its speed, but the fact that it was the first in North America to be spotted in such action...