Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should know. Back in the mid-1950s, about the time when his The Organization Man was published, Whyte watched with horrified wonder as his home county in Pennsylvania's lovely Brandywine Valley was ruined by heedless real estate development. He decided he should learn more about land use and conservation. He has since be come an expert on the subject. He helped to draft conservation programs for Connecticut, California and New York, also served on President Johnson's task force on natural beauty...
...comparatively modest, four-bedroom, ivy-covered house in Bel Air Estates. He owns two cars, a Chrysler for him, one for her-just like any other successful, harried commuter. When The Way West was on location in Oregon, his costars, Richard Widmark and Kirk Douglas, rented houses in Christmas Valley. Mitchum bunked with the wranglers...
Married. Erie Stanley Gardner, 79, master of the mysteries (more than 150 million Perry Mason and other books printed to date); and Agnes Jean Bethell, sixtyish, his secretary for 40 years; both for the second time; in Washoe Valley...
...grizzly bear one day in 1847, Explorer-Surveyor William Bell Elliott blundered into a canyon that looked to him like "the gates of Hell." Huge, spiraling columns of steam hissed out of the ground; the earth trembled beneath his feet. "The Geysers," as he named the hill-rimmed valley 85 miles north of San Francisco, is as awesome as ever. But its frightening bursts of steam are now being harnessed. The canyon is the site of the first commercial geothermal-power plant in the U.S., and the installation has paid off so handsomely in eight years of operation that...
...other drives as well. Some white girls see mixed dating as their way to break down barriers and help the Negro "overcome." Some are simply rebelling. "If a white girl wants to do her parents in," explains Dr. Lewis Yablonsky, head of the sociology department at San Fernando Valley State College, "the classic pattern is to go out with someone black...