Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Main-Stream Question. In 1928's Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the Hoover Dam system on the Colorado, Congress settled on water quotas for the states involved. Assuming the normal flow of the lower Colorado to be 7.5 million acre-feet per year *Congress assigned 4.4 million to California, 2.8 million to Arizona, 300,000 to Nevada. Any flow in excess of 7.5 million was to be divided equally between California and Arizona. The essential question was whether the 1928 formula applied only to the main stream of the river, as Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus...
...vote, turned not on any principle of law but on the intent of Congress in framing the 1928 statute. Associate Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion concluded from the record that "with minor exceptions, the proposals and counterproposals over the years . . . consistently provided for division of the main stream only, reserving the tributaries to each state's exclusive use." On a different interpretation of the record, William O. Douglas delivered a dissent so violent that it visibly jolted other members of the court. Black's opinion, said Douglas, "will, I think, be marked as the baldest attempt...
...assault force and told its charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince to "resume normal diplomatic relations." The Haitian radio crowed of Duvalier's "triumph of statesmanship," and Papa Doc sent his goons to raze a two-mile strip along the Dominican border to halt the stream of political refugees fleeing his corrupt and bloody regime...
...anyone who, in his blindness, nibbles at the bait the imperialists so lavishly toss out." Izvestia chimed in with an acid-etched portrait of the kind of comrade the imperialists are looking for. Dubbing him "Punkovsky"-for punk-Izvestia reported that this unsavory type cherishes a never-ending stream of gold-embossed invitations to diplomatic receptions, where he can be spotted by his "empty phrases and full glass." He is the sort of man who, when Benny Goodman visits Moscow, carries his clarinet case. Those old pants he wears so proudly were bestowed on him by a British traveling salesman...
...long day drew on, crowds gathered to pray and watch outside St. Peter's, and a stream of visitors came to the papal bedside. With a group of senior cardinals-among them Eugene Tisserant, Alfredo Ottaviani, and Amleto Cicognani, the Vatican's Secretary of State-John talked about identifying the three cardinals in petto whose names he has kept secret since 1960. The Pope also blessed the cardinals and thanked them for their support. "I'm sorry to be going," the Pope said. "To many," answered Ottaviani, "it appears to be the hand...