Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's off-year election proved once again that the quality of the U.S. environment is becoming an increasingly important concern of the nation's electorate. Wherever the environment issue cropped up, the result was the same. Voters within the Mojave Water District of California's San Bernardino County refused a proposed coal-burning power plant despite the increased taxes it would have contributed to the district. Reason: the plant might pollute the clear desert air. At Mercer Island in Lake Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve...
...environment issue was not as easily identified in some elections. Just how much Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes' vigorous program to curb water pollution helped him win reelection, for example, is conjectural-though it surely did help. In Aspen, Colo., on the other hand, Mayoral Candidate Eve Homeyer beat her two male opponents by promising to save "the quality of life" in the pleasant, fast-growing mountain resort...
...action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated, the supply line continued to bring food as if life were indeed dependent upon it. The fact that an unorganized group which had somehowcome together in a common cause was able to feed itself, set up lines of communication, muster lawyers and doctors to the scene was a source...
Which makes quite a few people grin. There seven tape recorders wrapped in leather on the table. A pitcher of water appears on the table, matching all the glass ashtrays. the glasses. Forty men. wearing ties, fill the room...
Cameraman have knobs and buttons to twirl. Reporters drink water and talk...