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...hard times on the Beaver Dam Road...
Proffitt lives near Beaver Dam Road in Watauga County, North Carolina. His voice is flat, coarse, aloof and unsentimental. Close your eyes and you can smell the corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have...
...from the Start. These are the main stages planned: 1) the blasting out of a mile-long channel to detour the Nile around the main dam; at one point the channel will go underground through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of a power station; 2 ) the construction of an upstream cofferdam to steer the Nile into its new bed. and of a second cofferdam downstream so that the river will not seep back into the dam site after its detour; 3) the building of the main dam itself, which cannot begin until the channel...
From its start in January 1960. the project has gone badly. Full Soviet plans were not ready until eight months later, and have changed repeatedly since. The Russians believed it would be easy and inexpensive to build an opencut channel around the dam. But the massive Soviet drills-of a type that was obsolete in the West 25 years ago- failed to make headway in Egypt's volcanic rock. Over Soviet protests, Nasser ordered batteries of light, rubber-tired rock drills from Sweden, and imported Swedish rock engineers to supervise their operation. Even so. in temperatures...
...Harder Than Space. Twice this summer. Nasser sent delegations to Moscow demanding more and better service. In July the Russians agreed to fire the Soviet project director. Dr. Ivan Kosmin. who had built the great Kuibyshev Dam on the Volga. His replacement. Dr. Alexander Alexandrov. took one quick look at Aswan and rushed back to Moscow to ask for more machines and technicians. The most ominous result of these stops and starts, plan changes and equipment failures, was that rock excavation fell far behind schedule, with only 7,300.000 out of a total of 26 million tons of granite drilled...