Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costin said that a government corporation is needed to handle the yearly increase of two billion pieces of mail. "We must plan ahead," he added. "We were told years ago about air and water pollution, and we didn't listen...
...largest is KM6 (six kilometers from town), a U.S. suburb transplanted to Asian soil. There American families live in two-and four-bedroom ranch-style houses laid out with barbecue pits and with swings, ponies and bicycles on their grassy lawns. KM6 has its own electric power generators, water supply and sewage system, plus tennis courts and a 450-student school...
...commissions work outside New England is proved by the example of New Jersey, the nation's most heavily industrialized state, which has started no fewer than 55 of them in less than a year. The commissions in several coastal towns are acting to protect the state's water basins, shoreline and lands below the high-tide mark. The town of Harding is considering a novel "stream-protection zoning" statute that would thwart pollution and overdevelopment along its many small streams. In short, the commissions are uniting local officials and environmentalists for action where it counts-at the grassroots...
...them. When he visits old chum Orville Sandweiss, now locked into a wife-swapping element of Cleveland society. Willie does not mock bourgeois Orville. He merely describes and wonders how Orville goes on making love to his wife ("I might just as well be sticking it in soapy water," says Orville), Willie finds Orville outlandish and so do we-but it is an outlandishness on the side of the humane rather than the grotesque...
James F. Clark '70 anchored the six foot-long portable plastic bubble to four boulders 25 feet under water and then inflated it with an air compressor floating above him on the surface...