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...Edward Rehfeld, who takes a dim view of such adventures, spotted the contraption two miles above the falls, put in a frantic call for a U.S. Army helicopter (no pilot available), then chased after the ball along the river bank. He could follow only as far as Niagara Control Dam, where he ran out for a better look. "I wanted to see it go over...
When Ramses built his temple, he probably expected it to impress the world until the end of time. He certainly did not dream that 3,185 years after his death a gigantic dam would block the Nile, and a long winding lake would creep gradually upstream to cover the temple's site with 190 ft. of water. But that is what is happening. Unless the ancient temple can be protected, the water backed up by the Aswan High Dam will submerge and probably crumble...
When the swift little stallion was gaveled off at over-the-counter prices in 1957, the suggestion of such a future seemed absurd. His lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price...
PUBLIC POWER : Goldwater voted to free gas producers from federal regulation, opposed federal ownership of Hells Canyon Dam in 1956. But he supported the $1 billion, federally sponsored Upper Colorado River Storage Project, which will mightily benefit his Arizona constituents...
...Only one man was killed, a road worker who was blown apart trying to unstrap a bomb from a tree along the Brenner highway. But police averted a major disaster when they discovered and defused a bomb only an hour before it was set to go off under a dam at Selva dei Molini. The dam's collapse would have flooded the entire valley...