Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER are two children's films that do not talk down to their audience. Mountain is about a Canadian lad who runs away from home to live in the wilderness, Ring about a London accountant who adopts an otter. Both films are slight, sincere and very pleasant...
...Navy has eight or nine operating AGERS (meaning Auxiliary General Electronics Research ships) similar to Pueblo, but it is unlikely that any are now cruising the hostile waters off North Korea. While these vessels are considered inferior to the EC-121s for electronic surveillance-the planes can pick up high-angle radar beams more easily than the ships-the AGERS are more versatile. They monitor radio broadcasts, collect water samples needed to develop sonar penetration methods, track Soviet submarines, and observe and photograph surface shipping...
When Nasser came to power in 1952, he used to insist that any renewal of war with Israel would detract from his most important task, raising the standard of living of his people. "In Egypt today," he complained at the time, "a water buffalo is more valuable than a human being. I mean, it costs more to hire a water buffalo for a day's work than it does to hire a fellah." Today the same holds true, though the price has gone up for both a man's labor (58¢ a day) and a water buffalo's hire (69?...
...thesis, The Smooth Water Navy; American Naval Policy and Politics 1865-1876, is a study of congressional-Naval relations under the impact of American foreign and domestic policies...
...those colloquia, Rachel Bas-Cohain, a young artist-Scholar in her late twenties, presented her experiments with reflected light, motion, and polarizing materials. As one of the guests, I wandered with about fifty women through her exhibit, a collection of whirring, flashing, rotating constructions made of glass, wood, water, and light. One construction consisted of two panes of glass pressed against each other and suspended from the ceiling. From one corner between the glass panes, water vapor seeped continuously upward in lacy bubbles. A light cast on the wall a shadow of the moving vapor lacework. The shadow looked like...