Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus ended the career of one of Communism's most guileful and skillful leaders. One of Novotny's first projects after he maneuvered to succeed the late Klement Gottwald in 1953 as party boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs...
...Dead Sea proved to be another matter. When they were no more than a mile into Jordanian territory, the Israeli armored columns were met by Jordanian tanks, which gave fierce battle and pinned down half of the Israeli force. The other half raced ahead toward Karamah, across the river flats, through groves of oranges, olives, blossoming almond trees, across fields of young wheat and vegetables...
...smog and famines and ugliness. Growth for its own sake has somehow been confused with progress," Brower tells his audiences. And then, since the slogans are easy to ignore, he recites a list of some of the most outstanding mistakes planned in the name of progress--tapping the Yukon River for California, building an SST, or damming the Mekong in South Vietnam...
...lecturing because "Here people want to believe, want to agree with you." Still, he constantly worries about his worthiness to appear before them. Two or three days before each lecture he begins to live in the subject he wants to discuss, in walks around the block or along the river. Nothing is written, or even mentally composed. Sentences (except for the first and the last, which he says he forgets by the time he gets to it anyway) aren't attempted. He prepares by convincing himself of his conviction in the validity of his ideas. His career has taught...
...first Friday of the new term. There were mixers at two Houses, Phil Ochs was in town, and there was a big hockey game across the river. But Bill Bradley was at the IAB, and 1600 people--the largest basketball crowd in two decades--jammed into the place to watch him tear the Crimson apart. To say the least, they were surprised...