Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously...
...Congress created a 58,000-acre Redwood National Park in California, a 505,000-acre North Cascades National Park in Washington, a National Water Commission to study national water-resources problems. It also ended decades of interstate controversy by authorizing a $1.3 billion plan to develop the Colorado River Basin...
...another day, the rising sun was just beginning to shimmer over the Long Tau when Chief Signalman Bob Monzingo clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns...
...physical limits is Roy Smith, 28, a robust English-born mountaineer, who has led students on skindiving trips to the Gulf of California, and on explorations of caves in the Grand Canyon, and organized a student mountain-rescue team. This spring he plans a kayak trip down the Colorado River and eventually hopes to lead an archaeological expedition to Peru and an 1,800-mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge. "I was really scared, admits Mary Burns, 17, after her rope slipped...
...will support any program, any program at all, no matter what you call it, see, that gives rent-control to the poor and brings in low-cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long as it also sends Harvard and MIT packing across the river. Now if we don't do that, our future generations will be the subjects of that Harvard and they will all owe their allegiance to that royal messiah, Nathan M. Pusey...