Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved up Massachusetts Avenue towards the Charles River, the first warnings came. "We'll see a lot of weird people in Cambridge. We've got our hippies, we've got our flower children just like anywhere else. We've got a lot of traffic too, our streets were designed as cowpaths...
Crossing the Charles, the Sunglassed Voice described the different kinds of boats on the river and accurately predicted where and when one of them would collapse. "It's an expensive sport," he said. Most everyone in the bus nodded in agreement...
...discrimination. White banks, local antipoverty agencies and well-to-do Negroes were equally uninterested. "We had no assets and no balance sheets," she explains, "and my board of directors couldn't give any personal guarantees." But before long, Miss Walker and the 16-member board of the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative found a hidden asset-in the fact that the people they were trying to help were willing to help themselves...
...Harlem River group is following a concept long familiar elsewhere, particularly in white rural America, where cooperatives have long supplied services ranging from credit to electric power. Lately, the idea has won enthusiasm in the ghettos. Following last summer's riot, some 50 rudimentary "buying clubs" appeared in Detroit, at first merely to provide food in short supply after existing stores were burned or looted clean. One such venture, called Community Consumer Coop, Inc., has now made plans to open a neighborhood dairy store...
...quest has been to document that momentous episode in history when man changed from nomadic hunter to settled farmer. According to an old archaeological axiom, the transition took place thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the lush Middle Eastern flatlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Largely as a result of Braidwood's spadework, the Fertile Crescent theory has been buried. Most of his colleagues now agree with him that man actually abandoned his vagrant ways as early as 7000 B.C. and set up his first farm villages on the Fertile Crescent's hilly flanks...