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Great Days. That afternoon the Columbine pushed on to Minot, N. Dak., and next morning Ike drove 70 miles out from Minot to the giant Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...occasion of their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
...West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay hopes Congress will authorize construction of the two projects for 1954 to 1955, as a hedge against a business downturn. Total cost: $2.5 billion...
Lindsley's vast project will take 20 years or more to complete. A lacework of Yukon rivers and lakes, whose waters now flow north to the Arctic Ocean, will have to be dammed off in the north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters...
...first map-Annapolis to Point Lookout-rolled off the press. Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic Coast, from Cape May, N.J. to Chincoteague Is., Va., and they revised their first...