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FLOOD, by Robert Penn Warren. With his considerable talent for narrative and sense of place, the author of All the King's Men observes Fiddlersburg, Tenn., in the strange, revealing twilight that precedes the town's disappearance beneath the flooding waters of a federal dam project...
Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...
...halfbrother, Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Pathet Lao. One of his spokesmen accused the junta of "sabotage" and indicated that the Pathet Lao was ready to make plenty of trouble. Souphanouvong could still refuse to stay in the modified government. If so, the demon under the Thai Dam temple may yet come forth...
...concerned. We are convinced they are not arbitrary. In our judgment our decision was the only one responsible people could make." Dominy's-and Udall's-position was that the "Law of the River" permits them to draw on Lake Powell's water when Hoover Dam's supply runs short. In the end, Dominy assured the commission that his agency would consider arranging with private power companies to make up for Hoover's deficiencies, in which case the gates could be closed again at Glen Canyon...
Warren moves as sure-footed as ever through an intricate plot. Fiddlersburg, a town in Tennessee, is about to disappear under the waters of a federal dam; its citizens are thus caught at a time when they are most inclined to be articulate about themselves. Preachers, philosophers and local grotesques abound. But although Fiddlersburg has been condemned to death, the sentence does not (Samuel Johnson to the contrary) result in wonderfully concentrating its collective mind. On the contrary, an aeolian cavern of Southern garrulity is opened up and the air is thick with all the Confederate clichés about...