Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Western states have battled tempestuously over rights to the Colorado River's precious water. Now the Upper Basin states had a brand-new source of hydroelectric power, the $400 million Glen Canyon Dam near the Utah-Arizona border. Operation was scheduled to begin in June. But that had to be postponed, chiefly because the water level in Lake Powell behind the dam was insufficient to turn the generators. Members of the four-state Upper Basin Commission performed figurative rain dances, hoping that by August the lake would have accumulated the 6.5 million acre-feet of water necessary...
Three hundred of those admitted are expected to come to Radcliffe. This high rate of acceptance means that Radcliffe cannot offer substantially more scholarships than funds permit. Also, Radcliffe cannot count on many upper-classmen with financial aid to leave school, as can many colleges...
...from Republicans' attempts to embarrass John Reynolds, both as governor of the state and as a favorite son candidate standing in for the Johnson Administration. There is little doubt that many Republicans did in fact cross party lines (which is easy in Wisconsin) and voted for Wallace. In some upper-income suburbs north of Milwaukee, Wallace ran ahead of both Reynolds and the Republican favorite son, Congressman John Byrnes. Wallace also ran well in the farm and small-town heartland of Joe McCarthy, near Appleton and Oshkosh...
...buyer was Gannett newspapers, a string of 15 dailies (total circ. 877,000) largely located in upper New York State. The competent Gannett papers grew fat under the laissez-faire leadership of the late Frank Ernest Gannett, who permitted his editors wide latitude to run their shows as they saw fit, even down to disputing the boss...
Jubb is horribly shy. He keeps a stiff upper lip about his strange afflictions, even when his grimy world is coming apart. He has traditional British hobbies-serving on a Good Neighbours Club, writing Keep Britain Tidy letters to the local papers, collecting back numbers of boys' magazines like Gem and Magnet through which he vicariously enjoys upper-class memories of "uncles with fivers, tuck shops, and inky fags." Acting as a rent collector in a shabby new housing development, he dreams of spending a week amid the iniquities of Hamburg's sex-riddled Reeperbahn. Yearning for some...