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...Zealots' Creed. After a night's sleep and a breakfast pep talk to western Republicans, the President headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
Political Field Day. Ike's McNary Dam speech was topped by the frankly political address he saved for the next night, when he appeared before some 20,000 in the jammed Hollywood Bowl. Again and again he pounded home the same theme: a strong Republican Congress is necessary to carry out the Eisenhower program...
...Kansas' First District (Topeka). Democrat Howard Miller slipped into the seat in 1952 because of local opposition to a Republican-favored dam (his 1952 campaign slogan: "Let's stop dam foolishness"). With the dam issue quieted down, G.O.P. Nominee William H. Avery, a Wakefield farmer, is expected to recapture the traditionally Republican district...
Challenge in Manila. Back in drought-ridden Delhi, Nehru explained that his parable referred to the Chinese Communists, whom he compared with a "river of history." "One cannot stop a river, though one can build a canal," he told the Indian Press Association. "One should not try to dam...
Echo Park Dam would ruin the extraordinary canyons in the monument, and it is not necessary in order to provide the desired water and power benefits, since there are alternative methods...