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...Union to inspect hydroelectric facilities, hit it off famously with the Russian officials. Declared one: "We have known you literally only a few hours, but you have become dear to us." Udall even managed to persuade some Russians to play touch football in the shadow of one mighty Soviet dam, then threw a pass for the game's only touchdown. After swimming and dining with Khrushchev, Udall said that the Russian Premier had challenged the U.S. to an "energy race." Accompanying Udall to Russia was Poet Robert Frost, 88, whom the Secretary had adopted as his seer ("Udall...
...state governor, there can be few juicier plums than a massive, federally financed dam. But last week Republican Governor Tim Babcock of Montana showed up before a Senate Public Works subcommittee to oppose the Government's plan to build a dam in his state. The proposed Knowles Dam on the Flathead River, said Babcock, was an "unsound expenditure of the taxpayers' dollars that would cost the people of this country $259 million they do not need to spend...
Endorsed by the Army Engineers. Knowles Dam is part of the huge development program for the Columbia River Basin. But Babcock argued that the dam, which would ,,back up a 40-mile lake, would flood 9,000 acres of irrigated land, harm Montana's forestry industry, submerge three towns and displace 1,284 persons...
First and most obviously, said De Gaulle, the two nations must unite to thwart Soviet "ambitions of dominance." Secondly, he reasoned, "because the alliance of the free world-Europe and America-cannot preserve its self-confidence and solidity unless there exists on the old continent a dam of power and prosperity of the same sort that the U.S. constitutes in the new world. Such a dam can have no other basis than the solidarity of our two countries." Thirdly, peace and prosperity "from the Atlantic to the Urals" depend on a "single, unified Franco-German policy...
Organic Cooperation. In private dam-building talks with Adenauer, De Gaulle keyed his pitch directly to West Germany's bubbling new nationalism. "For years our foreign policy was based on considering ourselves the biggest small nation," glowed one German diplomat. "But De Gaulle sees us in a different light-as a great nation...