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...plot is taken from Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove. As finally assembled, the picture tells the story of a young TVAgent (Montgomery Clift) who is ordered to turn an 80-year-old woman (Jo Van Fleet) off her land so that a big new dam can be closed, the area flooded, and a waterpower project set in motion. She refuses to budge. "I don't sell my land," she croaks fiercely, "my land that I poured my heart's blood into...
Sharing the Nile. For the U.A.R., Qattara could be a useful auxiliary to the 10 billion kw-h expected from the Aswan High Dam. Except for insignificant rainfall, Egypt depends totally on the Nile for irrigation and power. Since 1,900 miles of the Upper Nile belong to the Sudan and its headwaters to four other countries with demands of their own, Egypt's future development may someday require more power than its share of the Nile can provide...
...forests of Bombay State. In 1954, when the primitive Warlie tribesmen of the two enclaves chased out their Portuguese overlords, the Indian government proclaimed that Dadrá and Nagar Aveli were now "independent" areas, and refused to let Portugal send troops in from the nearby Portuguese coastal possession of Damão. The Portuguese promptly went to the World Court with the claim that under treaty obligations dating from 1779, Portugal had an automatic right of passage across the Indian territory that separates Dadrá and Nagar Aveli from Dam...
When John Donner tries to return from the West to his birthplace in Pennsylvania, he is an old man, and Unionville has long been under the waters of a huge hydroelectric dam. Donner has been ill, and he is perhaps a little unbalanced as well. The local graveyards were moved up to high ground when the valley was flooded, and as he stands before the graves of his family, Donner is swept away by memories. In his fevered imagination, his boyhood Unionville exists again. He walks the streets, peers into houses, recognizes old friends and acquaintances. He even visits...
...fast-thanks to a quirk in the tax laws. Sunset, headed by Morton A. Sterling, 34, last week was branching out into the real estate business. It purchased Tavares Development Co., a huge. San Diego real estate firm that helped build the state of Washington's Chief Joseph Dam, Los Angeles' $20 million Hyperion sewage system, has built nearly 15% of all San Diego residences, and is currently developing suburban San Carlos, a 4,000-acre tract with a projected population...