Word: woods
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...divers then tried to swim to the sub, but he could not make headway against the 2½-knot current. Hindered by debris and problems with its sonar gear, a little submersible called a Cubmarine had no better luck. Just as the situation seemed hopeless, the research ship A.B. Wood arrived, equipped with a remote-controlled underwater television camera. Using the camera to guide a grappling hook, the Wood managed to snare Sea-Link; a single tug freed the sub, which rose immediately to the surface...
Bruising Battle. His firm, Deffet Companies, concentrates on building and sometimes operating big housing and apartment complexes as well as office buildings. It has building projects under way in 13 cities and in six Midwestern and Southern states. On at least one of these, the 124-unit Ivy Wood development in Columbus, Deffet will have to take a loss. Any profit from Ivy Wood, a federally subsidized, low-and moderate-income project, has long since been poured into legal fees and other costs of fighting a bruising four-year battle with residents of the adjacent white, middle-class village...
This month the Franklin County Court of Appeals dismissed the residents' second appeal of a lower court decision denying an injunction. They had sought it to block Ivy Wood construction on the ground that the project would alter surface drainage and hurt the village. Ivy Wood, for which the N.A.A.C.P.'s National Housing Corp. is the nonprofit sponsor, will be completed. "What we were doing was morally right," says Deffet, "but we cannot build another Ivy Wood. We can't afford...
barracks. By the end of the year the Saigon government hopes to resettle all the refugees. Recently, the first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...
Radcliffe has received a two-year grant of $318,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a program through the Radcliffe Institute that will prepare women for new careers in primary health care...