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...this year, New York City's 1,500-sq.-mi. watershed system has received only 131 in. of precipitation, well below the 80-year average of 23 in. for the first half of the year. In normal times, the city's industries and 8,000,000 inhabitants use a daily per-capita average of 154 gal. By dint of the restrictions imposed, that average is now down to 125 gal. and may be cut even more. As of last week, New York City's 476.5 billion-gal.-capacity reservoirs held only 240.7 billion...
Under the plan, the 22,000 sq. ft. will be closed and part of the land used. Harvard hopes, in its new building program. The University will in turn give up three slices of land, one in front of Littauer and the others on the Quincy St. and Cambridge St. Side of the triangular plot of land occupied by Memorial Hall. The total 11,500 sq. ft. involved will be used to widen Quincy and Cambridge Streets...
...sq.-mi. island of Mount Desert (pronounced dessert), Me., the accent has always been on sports as well as society. The grandeur has been somewhat subdued since Bar Harbor's big old mansions burned to the ground in the 1947 fire and were replaced by motels. But Northeast, Seal, and Southwest Harbor still are cluttered with the kind of people who do not mind how much money they spend as long as it does not show. Swimming is possible, but the water is so bone-chilling that only the hardy or the invulnerable young do much of it except...
...long been a ranching center, and the resort houses often retain the ranch-house look, but with a difference: one Houston millionaire has installed an indoor heated swimming pool in his hilltop home. For dedicated huntsmen who cannot find the time to take African safaris, there is the 115-sq. mi. Y.O. Ranch. Owner Charles Schreiner III has stocked it with imported game from all over the world: deer from Japan, aoudad rams from North Africa, antelope from India, Corsican rams and the twisted-horn eland from Africa. Since Texas game laws don't protect these exotic animals, there...
...nation was "more united than ever before." He had been looking forward to playing host next week to 3,000 delegates from some 60 nations at the second Afro-Asian Conference, and thousands of workers were laboring 24 hours a day on the construction of an 18,000-sq.-yd. meeting hall and on a general cleanup and trash-removal campaign in Algiers...