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...circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President of the U.S. (1929-33) as he served his Government still another time as President Eisenhower's personal representative at the U.S. National...
WHILE a sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick...
...confederation, the big neighbors of North America thunderously marked completion of the major works in the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project (see color pages). For three days the unstopped waters of the St. Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake, planting a trail...
...eastern end of the International Rapids, where the brawling river forms the boundary between Ontario and New York, two new dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...
...first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had gone seven months without being accepted, while Nasser tried to wangle better terms), the Russians were reneging on an agreement signed and sealed...