Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wild Valley. In their wild, inaccessible valley, the Nubians prospered tranquilly for centuries until the first As wan low dam was built in 1902. The rising Nile water drove the villagers farther up the cliffs, and the process was repeated in 1912 and 1933 as the dam was successively raised to a height of 182 ft. Half of Nubia's 30,000 arable acres were lost and the remaining 15,000 could only be hastily cultivated when the Nile...
...speed legislative action on the civil rights bill, presently held up by the House Rules Committee under the reactionary chairmanship of Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith. Even as a petition for bypassing the Rules Committee was being prepared, the President one morning drove past the Spring Valley home of House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, took him to the White House for breakfast. The meal included what Halleck called "thick bacon-the kind he knew a fellow from Indiana would like." Halleck came away glowing about how Johnson had "shown me things I never saw there before." He also...
...Chapin), the "in" uniform is a pair of torn khaki trousers patched with adhesive tape, and the "in" gun is a $1,000 Winchester 21 double shotgun. A few preserves even have their own aircraft landing strips ("Taxi Right Up to the Clubhouse," boasts California's Hidden Valley Club, favorite retreat of Lawrence Welk and Oilman Earl Gilmore). Wisconsin's Rainbow Springs stocks pheasant, quail, partridge and ducks, offers a 41-room clubhouse, skeet and trap ranges, a swimming pool, ice-skating, and an 18-hole golf course...
...growing at a dizzy rate on the Central Valley flatlands near Sacramento, Davis aims to be something more: a first-rate university with a vast campus of 3,710 acres. Already it has 4,900 students and 300,000 books; soon it will triple both, becoming the rural rival of Cal's urban jewels, Berkeley and U.C.L.A...
...regents envision Davis as the cultural leader of the Central Valley. The English faculty is adorned with men such as Hart Crane Biographer Brom Weber and Critic-Short Story Writer William Van O'Connor. Music has avant-garde Composer Larry Austin, protege of Darius Milhaud. Painters Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen help make Davis tops in art among Cal campuses. Drama boasts talented young acting students with a beard or two, and this year's visiting lecturer, Director Joseph Schildkraut, has already staged an excellent Peer Gynt. Symbolic of the times, the old Davis livestock judging barn...