Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirsty nation, the $150 million scheme is a modern equivalent of Christ's miracle of multiplication. Eventually, 85 billion gallons of water a year will flow through Israel's 154-mile network of pipelines, channels, siphons and tunnels. It will replenish the overexploited water table of the citrus-growing central plains, slake the thirst of existing Negev settlements, and provide enough water to sustain some 15,000 new families in the desert. But, momentous as the plan may be to Israel's future, the government last week went to great pains to play it down...
...more populous, prosperous Israel, threatened war if the project ever went through.* Then last January, at a summit meeting of 13 Arab leaders in Cairo, Egypt's President Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein persuaded their colleagues to drop the war talk and concentrate instead on a scheme that would, in effect, leave Israel high and dry. "We are not going to attack Israel," says Nasser. "We are going to build our own projects to utilize the Jordan headwaters before they reach Israel...
Courtly Advantage. The battle is not really equal-but that fits perfectly into the oriental scheme of things. Only 34 in. sq., the dainty pakpao is less than half as big as the bulky (85 in. sq.) chula, which takes as many as 50 men to control. But the pakpaos line up along the north side of Phramane Grounds, and the steady southwest wind gives a courtly advantage to the weaker sex. The female kites bank on speed and guile: sometimes two pakpaos will pounce on a single chula, like nimble fighter planes attacking a lumbering bomber. Even...
Stalin's Scheme. Though the Soviet Union has somewhat suddenly emerged as the world's second largest exporter (after South Africa), the big influx of Communist gold has failed to upset the West. Actually, the Soviet gold is welcomed by the U.S. Federal Reserve and European central banks, which have formed a consortium-called the London gold pool-to buy up gold as it comes on the market. Reason: the new supply of Soviet gold has eased the West's acute gold shortage and helped stabilize the free market price of gold at very near the official...
...bill would declare a moratorium on all new highways in the Boston area until a "Greater Boston Transportation Agency" had reviewed all new road proposals by the Department of Public Works and the Metropolitan District Commission and decided how well they fitted into a general transportation scheme for the metropolitan area. The MDC is scheduled to build the underpasses...