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Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
President Kennedy looked across the flat land toward the Missouri River, its waters imprisoned behind the world's largest rolled earth dam (Oahe: 242 ft. high, 9,300 ft. long). Behind the river rose the brown buttes of South Dakota's cattle country. The President opened his speech to some 9,000 persons with a deeply heartfelt cliche: "I want to express my great pleasure and tell you what a privilege it is to leave Washington these days and come out here." Kennedy had every reason to enjoy being away from Washington: the Democratic Congress was still giving...
...Pierre, S. Dak. (pop. 10,500), Kennedy paid his respects to welcoming officials-then broke for the airport fence to shake at least 200 hands among some 2,500 people pressing to see him. He was in South Dakota, ostensibly, to help dedicate a new 595,000-kw. Oahe Dam powerhouse. But the real reason for his presence was right at Kennedy's elbow: Democrat George McGovern, South Dakota Congressman from 1957 to 1961, Kennedy's Food for Peace director until last month, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. McGovern, running neck and neck with Republican Incumbent...
...Force Base, was Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who needs all the help he can get from all the Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...
...relative austerity. Says Premier Azmeh: "By its very nature, Syria lives on commerce. The Egyptians tried, but you cannot fight nature. We favor free enterprise and private business; we are against feudalism and exploitation. We want economic freedom combined with social justice." A forward step is the Euphrates dam, being built with West German Marks, which will irrigate 2,200,000 acres of land and produce enough power to meet all industrial needs. Syria's deposits of oil and gas are being effectively developed for the first time. At the same time, the Azmeh government has distributed about...