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...know of no one in this country with so pure a voice as Miss Adele Addison. Or so beautifully controlled a voice. When she sings one realizes that, like some great dam, she is withholding tremendous power, and releasing only a pure and limpid rivulet of sound. Last night, Miss Addison sang arias from Handel's somewhat neglected L'Allegro and II Penseroso with the Cambridge Society for Early Music; and sang them as only...
Died. Harvey Slocum, 75. tough-talking U.S. engineer who bossed the construction of India's giant (740 ft. high) and all-but-completed Bhakra Dam, a self-educated ex-laborer who helped build Hoover and Grand Coulee dams and whose overriding ego-he called himself "the best damn dam builder in the world" -was matched only by his professional skill; of a heart attack; in Nangal, India...
Three years in the planning, the project would include a $196 million dam and a $128 million aluminum smelter. Ghana would pay $98 million, and the U.S. would ante up $133 million in long-term loans. Anxious to get his enterprise under way, the worried Nkrumah twice in the past month has sent hurry-up letters to President Kennedy...
...Ghana, Clarence Randall will try to determine whether the dam is economically feasible-and whether Nkrumah really deserves aid. The onetime chairman of Inland Steel, Republican Randall served as chairman of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy under Dwight Eisenhower and knows the ins and outs of foreign aid. He is also a very tough customer...
Already, substantial industrial development has started, including a recently completed dam on the Caroni River, a government-owned steel mill, and railroad installations which bring iron ore down the Orinoco...