Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard scored early in the game despite the ankle-deep water on large portions of the field. With his long run, Hayes carried the ball to the goal-line, where he was tackled. In the scramble for the loose ball, wing forward Dick Barrett scored a try by falling on the ball in the end zone...
...follow an old Volkswagen bus north to Malibu, where it U-turns and pauses at the water's edge. Four surfboards on top, four kids with long hair inside. I ask the nearest surfer on the beach, "Why do you do it?" Terry Sinclair, a college boy with long dark hair, answers: "Because I wrecked my leg motorcycle racing...
...lady I will call Joan Adkins lives in Mission Hills. On her color television set is a bowl of water with a statuette of Jesus submerged in it. She turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I've been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook...
...many youngsters get through their early years without a spanking. But what monstrous parents would burn an infant's flesh with cigarettes? Immerse a baby in a sink of scalding water? Break its bones-in one instance, 17 times? These all too familiar examples appear in the growing body of literature concerned with what is known as the "Battered Child Syndrome." The phrase was coined eight years ago by Dr. C. Henry Kempe, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, during a pioneer investigation of child beating and its causes. Kempe...
France's Perrier company has built an empire on water. Besides selling half of the roughly 2.5 billion bottles of mineral water that Frenchmen drink every year, it has the national franchise for Pepsi-Cola and is one of the largest makers of chocolate and other candy in France. Annual sales are $204 million. But when Perrier tried to expand its gastronomic conglomerate by growing big in the dairy industry, the ensuing spectacle resembled the script for a French farce...