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...Plan of Battle. With the help of Russian technicians, the Red Chinese have drawn up an ambitious plan to straddle the Yellow and its tributaries with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived...
...petition asking him to run for governor. Not for 40 years had the conservative eastern Washingtonians crossed the Cascades in search of a candidate. Aided by 27,000 volunteer workers, Langlie stumped the state, edged out Clarence Dill, locally famed for selling Franklin Roosevelt on the Grand Coulee Dam idea, by 5,816 votes, while Roosevelt was carrying Washington...
...Nasser's word that it was just a commercial transaction with the Czechs, based on considerations of self-defense and the need for bartering away surplus cotton. Turning the other cheek, the U.S. practically embargoed arms shipments to Israel, and even volunteered to help build a $1.3 billion dam at Aswan, offering Nasser a $56 million grant for a starter. The World Bank pledged an additional $200 million loan...
...that tireless student of the Levantine press already knew that his Soviet arms deal had set the whole Arab world afire. He had played the West against the East, and come out on top; he had received arms from the East, and stood to get a dam from the West. He began to throw his weight around. When the British tried to line up Jordan with the Baghdad Pact, he counterpunched. Radio Cairo's propaganda, joined by Saudi gold and Communist intrigue, helped blow Glubb Pasha out of Jordan. Nasser's broadcasts spread hatred for the U.S. among...
...race) and his "little boat," the 103-ft. auxiliary schooner Eros, Niarchos has cruised effortlessly into international society. He has become a patron of the arts (he paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pieta) and the sport of kings (his 18-horse stable includes Nashua's dam, Segula). A lover of good food and wine, he has been known to explain to dallying guests, as he heads for the dining room: "My cook doesn't like to be kept waiting." He likes to dance and gossip,-"gives or attends at least five parties a week...