Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subjects has doubled to $168 in the same period. Factories are being built almost as fast as Bedouins pitch tents, turning out practically everything from potash byproducts on the Dead Sea to Surf detergent near Amman. Thanks to a gigantic natural hothouse in the Jordan River valley, 65 miles long and as much as ft. below sea level, Jordan is now the region's biggest exporter of vegetables. Irrigation experts are siphoning water from the Yarmuk River and tapping long-unused Roman cisterns to make 75,000 acres of desert bloom. One project had unexpected results: 5,000 hungry...
...voters of Chanzeaux, a wine-growing, cattle-raising township of 1150 persons in the Loire Valley near Angers, the November 18 French Parliamentary elections were a minor event. Four years ago the citizens of Chanzeaux were dissatisfied, and one hundred and nineteen of them supported Pierre Poujade, the semi-anarchist farmer who inveighed against taxes and government. In this election, despite a fiery speech in town hall. Poujade received only twenty-seven votes...
Earlier in Chicago and in Tennessee, he designed a summer auditorium for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first private redevelopment project in Chicago, one-billion-dollars of industrial buildings for the Tennessee Valley Authority, a new downtown for Oak Ridge, Tenn., and another major shopping center, as well as residences...
Lamour's first task was to win the support of his fellow farmers in the lower Rhone Valley. He sparked the formation of a partly private, partly government development corporation and sent its agents into Midi homes to argue for an irrigation system that would wipe out the area's dependence on grapes alone. Lamour's advice to his agents: "Never refuse a glass of wine. Try to get on 'tu' and 'toi' terms with everyone...
Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...