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...billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt's history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create Lake Nasser, largest man-made lake in the world. According to the plans, it will bring into cultivation a badly needed million acres of now barren land, and double the present Egyptian output of electricity...
...last week there were serious doubts that the project can be finished by its scheduled date, even though 570 Soviet technicians and 17,000 Egyptian engineers and laborers are working round the clock. The High Dam is not supposed to be finished till 1968, and the entire project till 1970, but there is a tight schedule for the completion of successive stages, and if any one were to be delayed, the whole plan would be thrown out of kilter...
Cheaper by Water. To shore up the sandy, crumbling banks of the Arkansas, the project will spend $118.5 million alone on dikes and retaining walls. To control the silt, two large dams will be built on major tributaries to the Arkansas: the Eufaula on the Canadian River and the Oologah on the Verdigris. Finally, to make the shallow, shifting Arkansas navigable, engineers will build a series of 18 locks and dams along the 516-mile route, including the $90 million Dardanelle lock and dam...
...face! The features are covered with hair, the hair is covered with dirt. But just as the customers are about to scream, the monster waddles comically across the floor and revolves a massive iron wheel that looks as if it opened at least a sluiceway in Grand Coulee Dam. The pipe roars like Niagara, and from the end of it rushes-a dribble. With a cake of hope the monster airily washes its face. With a burlap bag it daintily towels off and, turning to the camera, presents...
...opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom of worship. The church, argues one close associate of the Pope's, is not "a dam against Communism. This is an entirely absurd concept. The church should not be against anything. It should be positively for something. When we support only one bloc we alienate half of humanity...