Word: trunk
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There is another, more serious, source of river poisoning. The Metropolitan Distric Commission operates two sewage trunk lines that lie at the bottom of the Charles. These pipes are supposed to carry waste from Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, and parts of Boston to a treatment plant in Boston Harbor. But the trunk lines now operating are too small to handle all of the flow. So the MDC is forced to release the excess volume into the Charles through a number of overflow valves...
...correct this situation in the Charles and to solve similar problems in the greater Boston area, the MDC began a $104 million sewer expansion program in 1954. The project called for a three to five-fold increase in the capacity of trunk lines and the construction of two new treatment plants in Boston Harbor. Although a scandal in 1959 interrupted the program for two years, it should be completed sometime in 1965. After 1965, the Charles and other nearby rivers should be pollution-free...
Greatest Since Kissing. The beep line comes and goes among teen-agers all over the U.S.-a kind of electronic equivalent of the old-fashioned tree trunk on which people used to hang messages. It is partly just fad and fun, partly a way of getting dates...
...British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there and act as if you are slightly sick...
Strictly speaking, A Kind of Magic begins in 1938 and covers the years of Saratoga Trunk, Giant and Ice Palace. But Author Ferber roams as far back as her days as a $3-a-week cub reporter with the Appleton, Wis., Crescent. Never married, she has had an exuberant, lifelong love affair with "this fantastically rich and spectacular, this gorgeously electric and vital country." Bridgeport and Ashtabula interest her as much as Berlin and Athens, and in a few incisive words she can draw an ineradicable image of a city or a country. "Gray, shrouded, crumbling" Galveston reminds...