Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covering the entire city of Boston, I was shipping out to Lowell, I was shipping to Fall River, New Bedford, we covered Providence, I had a distributor down in Providence, and I had one in Brockton, I had one in Holbrook, Randolph, all of Quincy, Lynn, Revere, I had all around, within a radius of 25, 30 miles of Boston, we covered, each driver covered a different area. I covered quite a bit. But the outside sales were not to be compared to the sales in the city. I had about 30,000 in Boston. All over the city...
...raid came not on the Suez front but on the Nile River, deep in Egypt's heartland. By the light of a nearly full moon, a band of airborne Israeli commandos penetrated farther into enemy territory (140 miles) than they had ventured even during the war. Then the force split into three groups. One squad assaulted the bridge at Qena (pop. 40,000), a $5,000,000 span completed only this year. Another attacked the bridge-dam at Nag Hammadi (pop. 20,000), whose lock controls the flow of water for irrigating upper-valley sugarcane fields. The third...
...hold a master's degree in ad ministration from the University of Michigan, or have written four books, or are given to such sublime reflections as: "I am never really happy unless I can get up in the morning and look at an ocean, a lake or a river; I get strength from looking at a moving body of wa ter." None. But a good many coaches may soon be moved by the resident intellectual of their profession. George Allen, in three seasons as head coach of the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams, has accomplished...
...decades in Washington, the community has been transformed from a decaying, unpaved cow town into a humming tourist mecca. As Congressman, Senator, Vice President and President, Johnson City's native son has showered largesse on his home hill country. First, in New Deal days, came the Lower Colorado River Authority, whose dams harnessed and tamed waters that had ravaged the countryside. Then he won for Johnson City the Pedernales Co-Op, which today provides power from the authority's steam plants to some 18,500 customers in seven counties. Lately there has been more: a handsome 50-unit...
...constituency, had turned cool and often hostile. Jeers greeted his name at synagogues; "hate mail" came into his office. City Hall became a fortress against an angry city, and Lindsay spent more and more time at Gracie Mansion, the city's elegant mayoral residence overlooking the East River. Only a short time ago, it had looked as if Lindsay could charm the whole city, which is about as charmproof as any in the world; now the whole community seemed to have turned against him. Says one City Hall acquaintance: "The birds have started circling around, as they watch...