Word: watervliet
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...Nine years ago, the Frank Bagnardis of Watervliet, N.Y., adopted a young teenage girl named Lleuwana. The couple separated two years later, and when they were finally divorced in 1973, Frank got custody of Lleuwana and his own four natural children. Last year he decided to marry Lleuwana; they were refused a marriage license and went to court. But Trial Judge William R. Murray recently decided that the state law on "incestuous and void" marriage applies only to blood relatives. So Frank, 50, and Lleuwana, 23, are now Mr. and Mrs. as well as father and daughter...
CHARLES P. BARRETT Watervliet...
...derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess named Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight original disciples to America in 1774. They settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...
...Expert and irreplaceable ordnance workers have been fired from the Rock Island and Watervliet arsenals, have drifted to other jobs. Gone was a priceless reservoir of talent...
From the U.S. Army's Watervliet, Rock Island and Springfield Arsenals they wheedled a little obsolete equipment; from many a New England textile factory they got a machine or two, one 75 years old. A few new ones, destined for already-fallen France, were lifted from the docks. In its Hamden plant, High Standard tore down the outmoded machines; redesigned, rebored, rebuilt them to fit its production line. On March 15 production began; on April 19 the first gun was finished. Production is now 150 a day. There has been only one reject...