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...Says he: "If they want their Congressman to go down to Washington for no other purpose than to genuflect every time Ike speaks, they've got the wrong man." In Washington State, when asked if G.O.P. Representative Thor Tollefson planned to attend the President's McNary Dam dedication, an aide replied: "Hell no, Thor doesn't want Ike to run on his coattails...
...Mahoney has found other potent issues in an appropriations cutback for Glendo Dam and in an Interior Department decision to sell North Platte River water stored in Kendrick project to downstream users in Nebraska (he took credit for getting the latter decision modified). Campaigning last week at Powell,, Wyo.,near the Shoshone Reservoir and Heart Mountain Reclamation Project, O'Mahoney invoked two national heroes in attacking Republican power policies. Said he: "The Shoshone project was conceived by Buffalo Bill . . . who organized a company to distribute the water. It soon became apparent, however, that private capital was inadequate...
Theoretically, the G suit makes it possible for a pilot to tolerate as much as two Gs more than human nature in the raw. In practice, however, any flyer tenses his belly muscles when he is going into a tight turn, and this tends to dam the blood stream. Some authorities question whether it really gives any more protection than good muscle tone, properly used. The Navy's Captain Charles F. Gell believes that the answer to G forces is not a suit but a reclining seat. At the Johnsville (Pa.) Air Development Center, he has experimented with tilt...
Last week President Eisenhower gazed on the towering edifice of the McNary Dam, then pointed to a wispy, grey man on the speaker's platform. Said Ike: "My good friend, Senator Guy Cordon, for the past ten years has labored tirelessly to complete this project." Ike's words came as a sincere-and politically priceless-tribute to Oregon's Republican Cordon, who in his quiet way has made himself influential among G.O.P. Senators. This year Cordon is in a desperate fight for re-election against his Democratic opponent, Richard Neuberger, a state senator and free-lance writer...
...University of California graduate, Steve Bechtel started working summers in his father's construction firm. In 1931 the firm teamed up with other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a new construction field. He began laying pipelines, soon spotted the profits to be had from building power plants and oil refineries to keep pace with mushrooming demand. All a company had to do was tell Bechtel what it wanted and he would design and build...