Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lombard said last night that "some of our minority students were concerned about what was happening across the river. It took half and hour, maybe a little more to get what I thought were fair answers to their questions...
...Hiller has sworn not to use any too-artsy techniques, like the slow motion in Goodbye Columbus as Ali bounds toward the river for a swim one balmy evening. Altogether, Hiller impressed me as the most intelligent person around. He strolled up and down the ice in his huge grey-green parka, looking out from the fur with deep brown monkey-wise eyes in a face that does not look so much lined or aged as well-used...
...Chinese road builders moved across the border of China's Yunnan province into northern Laos. By the time the monsoon rains began last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important Mekong River tributary, then northeast toward North Viet Nam. Last September, as the rains ended, the coolies moved on-this time southwestward through the Beng Valley toward the Mekong River and the border of Thailand...
Washington's top man in Cambodia is Career Diplomat Lloyd Rives, 47, whose last station was Burundi. A mere charge d'affaires in a country where even the Viet Cong have a full-fledged "ambassador," Rives lives in a three-story rented house near the brown Bassac River, within sight of grazing elephants. His bed, one of the few pieces of furniture in the place, was donated by the landlady. Bachelor Rives and his diplomatic staff of two (a secretary and a communications expert) work in a makeshift office in the servants' quarters, using packing cases...
...said that although the pollution in the Cayoga River could be eliminated, it would be at tremendous expense to industries which use the river. The financial burden would probably shut down the Republic Steel Company, he claimed, causing a wave of unemployment throughout the Cleveland ghettos. "Is this in the public interest?" Calkins asked...