Word: valley
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Camp Wawbeek, in the Wisconsin River Valley, is no ordinary children's camp. It is one of about 45 camps across the U.S. sponsored by the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. This summer more than 7,000 children will attend the camps. Total operating cost this season: $2,000,000, largely financed by the sale of Easter seals...
...Fire-Raisers, by Marris Murray. A vivid, moody story about a South African valley and its willy-nilly incendiaries (TIME, April...
What makes the Thruway remarkable is not its length but its good-sense planning. Following the historic route from New York up the Hudson to Albany, then west through the Mohawk Valley to Buffalo, it passes within 20 miles of 85% of the state's 15 million residents. Spurs to the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey turnpikes, Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania state line and Niagara Falls will add 137 miles and make it the best integrated of all toll roads. The spurs and a smoothly planned system of interchanges will also help overcome the vexing problems of entry...
...seven years Camillo the priest and Peppone the Communist have been meeting in combat for the souls and minds of the inhabitants of the now famed (if unnamed) village in Italy's Po River Valley...
...Panther Valley mines in eastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. was in trouble. Last year it lost $3,400,000; this year the losses increased because of rising costs and a dwindling market. On May 3 the company, coalmining subsidiary of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and fourth biggest U.S. hard-coal producer, shut down the mines, threw 4,000 miners out of work. Later it offered to reopen the mines if the United Mine Workers' locals would agree to "work harder, produce more." Since there are almost no other jobs in the valley, five locals voted to go back...