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...desolate gorge of the Columbia River 85 miles upstream from Portland, Ore., a rescue party was working last week to save one of the most interesting relics of America's distant past. Water, backed up by the great new dam at The Dalles, will soon cover the strange rock carvings in Petroglyph Canyon. No one knows who carved the animals, sunbursts and strange, maplike designs in the hard basalt, or when or why they did it. But the fascinating mystery will never be solved if deep water is permitted to cover the evidence...
...quick, private-power development to a more moderate Seaton program of maximum use of each river valley, and possibly increased federal development. Along these lines, Fred Seaton may yet reopen the celebrated Hell's Canyon dispute (TIME, Oct 22 et ante), come out for a modified federal high dam of some sort...
...join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union.) In abruptly canceling the Aswan Dam negotiations he provided Nasser with a public relations excuse for seizing the Suez Canal (which he had long intended to do anyway). Then Dulles, in a correct estimate that Britain and France were on the verge of war over Suez, jumped all too confusingly from one Suez Canal settlement proposal...
Here he promised one of his new prefab schoolhouses, there money for a new road. He inspected a new irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis Andrew Pick, 66, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...