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...public "pleasuring ground." Thus was created Yellowstone, still the largest (3,450 square miles), as well as the oldest of the national parks, and visited in the last 84 years by an army of 19 million. But the wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country at the Arizona-Nevada border. Close behind Lake Mead's 2,675,000-a-year traffic come the Great Smokies, with 2,580,000 a year. The newest of the parks, Florida's swampy Everglades, 1,258,000 acres...
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov reportedly has offered an easy-credit loan to help Egypt build its High Dam on the Nile at Aswan. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser is happy to have a counteroffer to set against the $270 million primary financing proposed by the U.S., Britain and the World Bank. (The Western offer awaits some ironing out of details, and is also stalled by U.S. reconsideration of where Nasser stands since his arms deal with Communist Czechoslovakia.) To get the Russian loan, Nasser would have to mortgage Egypt's all-important cotton crops...
...personal skill than on the international appeal of the policies he is obliged to follow. Right from the start of his Middle Eastern tour, Shepilov ran into one setback after another. In Cairo, Shepilov's indication that Russia was prepared to underwrite the entire cost of the High Dam at Aswan was received with polite evasiveness by his old friend Lieut. Colonel Nasser, who, up until now at least, has indicated a clear preference for having the U.S., Britain and the World Bank finance his dam...
...hell-bent on using Hell's Canyon to dramatize charges of an Administration natural-resources "giveaway" in the fall campaigns. The committee, following a similar move by its Senate sister, voted 15-13 to clear for House action a bill to build a $600 million federal high dam in Hell's Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. The Idaho Power Co., which the Federal Power Commission licensed last August to build three small dams in the area for an estimated $250 million, has already begun large-scale construction...
...water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...