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...Reds have worked hardest. Hungary is shipping the Egyptians between 50 and 90 locomotives and freight cars to go with them; Russian tankers have delivered the first of some 500,000 tons of Rumanian and Russian oil. The Kremlin has even offered to help build the giant new Aswan dam, which Premier Abdel Nasser believes his country must have or starve (Nasser has already signed up an English engineering firm to design the dam, but so far has been unable to get money out of the World Bank to build...
...easiest ways to start an argument in the U.S. is to propose damming a river. Last week the fights over two big dam projects which have been through long controversies were settled...
...Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...
...sitting with the boys in the cheering section. Radcliffe was still a much-maligned institution whose students were worth nothing except A's in courses taught by Harvard Faculty members. But during the last war, when expediency brought "joint education" and inflation brought soaring prices for outside entertainment, the dam of the anti-feminists broke. House residents now entertained women guests in considerable numbers, and in 1946 the Masters, disturbed by non-masculine sounds emanating from House rooms in the early afternoon, decided that they didn't like the pre-4 p.m. part of the new parietal regulations after...
...called last week on Vice President Chen Cheng, the commission chairman, to offer his thanks and to remind the Vice President that he is an engineer (Purdue '23) as well as a military man (V.M.I. '27). Sun's likely next assignment: Formosa's new Shihmen dam project, of which Chen Cheng is also chairman...