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...Parsons, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, is hoping for the big job in Tokyo. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who was exiled from Egypt, first to South Africa and then to Afghanistan, by John Foster Dulles (he was a casualty in the U.S. policy switch on Nasser's Aswan Dam project), is expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among State people is genial Roger Tubby, 50, who was a press officer there from 1945-49, later became...
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. An uncommonly well-told account of the author's sentimental journey by canoe down the Brazos River of western Texas, a watercourse that was to be destroyed by a power dam project...
...dam had burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...able to rescue hundreds of rings, jeweled swords, wrist bands, fragile animal motifs of hammered gold. Experts guess that there may be scores more of such crypt treasures across the nation: only four months ago, a cache of 16th and 17th century crystal was found by workers excavating a dam...
Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon...