Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then...
Three new campuses are planned in the areas of La Jolla, southeast Los Angeles and south of San Francisco. By 1970 the new schools should be educating some 35,000 students. A fourth new campus, for 5,000 students, may be built in the San Joaquin Valley...
...state and raise nuts somewhere; but he stayed. Meredith's mother Rosalie, a Sunday-school superintendent for 40 years, nicknamed him "Glory" because he always had a smile on his face. Rosalie acted in amateur plays-a daring hobby at the time-and grew lilies of the valley on the north side of the house. She kept Lorna Doone and Tennyson within easy reach of the Willson children, and dressed curly-haired Meredith in a black velvet Fauntleroy suit on the occasions when he spoke a piece at the Congregational Sunday School. Willson admits that The Music...
WHILE a sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick...
...coalman, was elected president of Pennsylvania's money-losing Glen Alden Corp., biggest U.S. producer of anthracite (1957 sales of $62 million brought a net loss of $3,494,000). He replaces Francis O Case, 63, inactive since April, when Bradbury moved in from the presidency of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Case had approved of the plan to merge Glen Alden with List Industries, successor to RKO Theaters Corp. and owner of 38½% of Glen Alden stock. But last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court enjoined the plan because some stockholders objected...