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What the Nile is to Egypt, the Colorado is to the Great American Desert. Without the waters of the mighty Colorado, fifth longest of U.S. rivers, prosperous cities and fertile farms would wither and be layered over with wind-blown sand. Long before white men invaded the desert, Indian tribes constructed elaborate canals to irrigate their fields with Colorado River water. Today, by way of a vast system of aqueducts, canals and tunnels, the Colorado quenches the megalopolitan thirst of Los Angeles and keeps a million acres of Southern California farm land green in what used to be an arid...
With nary a peep from Pop - Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater -Peggy said that after a few years at Washington, D.C.'s Mount Vernon Junior Col lege, she would like to spend a year trying the wind-blown life on an Israeli kibbutz (collective farm). Barry Jr. said that if the U.S. Air Force does not accept him, he might join the Peace Corps, which his father once warned would attract "a bunch of beatniks who wouldn't work" but has since praised...
...Inauguration ceremonies Friday came the following slip of the tongue from a harried and wind-blown Robert Frost: "I wish to dedicate this poem to the President-elect, John...Finley...
...persons with reservations about Candlestick were the ballplayers. Candlestick was apparently contrived to make the worst of San Francisco's constant winds. Said the Giants' Willie Mays, after clouting two monumental drives during practice and seeing them land, wind-slowed, just short of the 397-ft. leftfield fence: "This park is too big. Somebody's gonna get some salary cuts around here." Said Giant First Baseman Willie McCovey, after his initial experience with wind-blown debris from the stands: "The peanut shells kept getting in my eyes...
...even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest is mostly rock: gravelly plains, dry river beds, lunar landscapes whose peaks soar to 11,000 feet above sea level and depressions of 50 to 100 feet below sea level...