Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than listening to a series of welcome speeches. Instead, incoming students, both male and female, strap on 40-lb packs and spend three weeks hiking through dry, bramble-strewn canyons and scrambling down 165-ft. cliffs; for three days, they must live on their own, surviving on nothing but water. In addition, they paddle kayaks and canoes for 95 miles around a wind-chopped lake, struggling to keep afloat during cloudbursts and camping overnight on the rocky shore...
...onstage. The set is simply the metal framework of a box the size of a room. On a garbled tape recording, the voice of Ruth White-middle-aged, pensive, measured and monotonous-fills the box and the theater. The voice is almost sleep inducing, like water lapping persistently at a sea wall. Actress White's monologue consists of some pretentious restatements of the obvious: Art is order; craftsmanship is waning; children in far-off places are starving to death...
Nixon favors tax incentives to bestir private enterprise to build ghetto factories and housing, to train the hardcore unemployed, to promote "black capitalism" and to reduce air and water pollution. As possibilities for budget cuts or stretch-outs, he has cited public works, the supersonic transport, the post-Apollo space program and federal highway construction. With the war's end, part of the fiscal savings should be used to replace the draft with a volunteer, paid "professional" Army. On other issues, Nixon and Humphrey split somewhat less sharply, but keep the economic argument alive. Items...
...after tipping over. Jennifer, under the direction of a red-headed boy named Tom, tipped over at will, but had not yet mastered the difficult stroke for completing the roll. The clock above the pool showed 8 p.m., and Jennifer and Tom reluctantly pulled their kayak out of the water...
...trick is to push hard with your upper arm," Tom, the treasurer of the Kayak Club, was enthusiastically telling his admirers. 'To roll a kayak, you have to make a wide sweep with your upper arm." Jennifer dove into the water with a resounding smack. "The water's great," she cried...