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...House Interior Committee voted down, by a narrow 16 to 14, Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost's bill to build a federal high dam in Hells Canyon. The Senate had already approved such a dam on the same Snake River stretch where the Idaho Power Co. is building the first of three privately financed low dams. The House committee demolished the high dam after reading a letter in which President Eisenhower said: "It is inconceivable to me that serious consideration is being given in some quarters to stopping this development, depriving the Northwest of power which is badly needed...
...first time, he spelled out details of how Egypt hoped to build the Aswan High Dam on a do-it-yourself basis, e.g., drawing on Suez Canal revenues (which gave him foreign exchange he did not have before) for the $172 million needed before 1962 for the project's scaled-down first phase...
Whether the exiled Georgy Malenkov will be allowed to manage his dam for long is something that perhaps even Nikita Khrushchev does not know at the moment. But just in case Malenkov must be done away with, Khrushchev laid the groundwork a fortnight ago by a pointed reference to Malenkov's involvement in "the Leningrad Case." This curious purge, and its echoes for nearly a decade, play a key role in the current Kremlin power struggle...
...Office of Defense Mobilization decision to grant Idaho Power a multimillion-dollar fast write-off tax break on the Snake River project (TIME, May 13) started the issue sizzling again. Encouraged, Northern Democrats in the Senate revived their Hells Canyon bill, although the federal dam it called for would flood Idaho Power's three dam sites...
...harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...