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...port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian border. In its six years of construction, Syria had repeatedly complained to the Security Council about the project. Last week the Syrians, chastened and preoccupied, raised not a murmur of protest...
...area, two-thirds of which is owned by the MDC and the other third by Cambridge, is the last unspoiled land in Cambridge. Mark DeVoto '61 and Richard Simmers '59 have made a catalogue of the wild life which is made up of both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna. It contains more than 100 species of higher plants, and over 40 types of birds have been seen in the area during the year...
Because of the dumping, the streams have been dammed up and have formed a pond. Thus the area encloses habitats for both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna...
...Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much of its comedy from mothers and fathers who know best, even this production of Topaze had the rare virtue of a refreshingly cynical point of view...
ROME'S FORUM, today a stupendous relic left from the days when it was the heart of the proud Roman Republic and later a center of empire, was built on a drained swamp area between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills. Sacred to Roman eyes, it served as a marketplace, law center, place of oratory, government and worship, contained the ancient Umbilicus Romae (a brick navel marking the ideal center of the city) and the reputed tomb of Romulus...