Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blaze trails in America, sometimes as slaves but often as scouts and valued aides to many of the famed explorers. They were with Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de León, Cortes, Pizarro, Menéndez, De Soto. Free Negroes were among the first pioneers to settle in the Mississippi Valley in the 17th century. In Virginia, Negro colonists knew no inferiority of status, owned land, voted, mingled with whites. Some 5,000 Negroes fought the British as troops in George Washington's army...
ERNEST R. RECHEL Huntingdon Valley...
...Wales. There were no ambiguities in the mine valley of Nye Sevan's youth; life could be sketched as a charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political...
...General Electric's Space Sciences Laboratory at Valley Forge, Pa., they are wiring rats to radios that draw all their electrical power from the bodies of the rodents themselves...
Koufax finally seems to have out-pitched his own luck. The Dodgers are paying him $30,000. He owns a bulging stock portfolio, part of an FM radio station and a motel. His $30,000 San Fernando Valley home is equipped with a well-stocked library (Aldous Huxley, Thomas Wolfe), stereo cabinet (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky) and bar. Bachelor Koufax tools around Hollywood in a shiny gold Oldsmobile convertible with an assortment of beauties at his side, picks up extra change by appearing on-stage in nightclubs, and playing bit roles...