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...Hermitage in Leningrad and the Louvre in Paris. One Yugoslav physical culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give-I'll give") stands for a while-U-wait wager: two dinars (16?) buys a sealed number that, if a winner...
...maharajahs, the fortress of Mangla in West Pakistan has in recent years commanded nothing more than a sweeping view of a river valley to the southwest and snow-tipped mountains to the north. Last week Pakistan President Ayub Khan came to Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...
Racing for the Bonus. The Mangla dam, first part of the complex to be completed, took a group of eight U.S. companies led by Guy F. Atkinson Co. of San Francisco less than six years to build at a cost of $510 million. The embankment stands 380 ft. high, is 11,000 ft. long, and holds 75 million cu. yds. of dry earth and rock. It is the world's fifth largest earth-filled dam and has the largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.2 million cu. ft. of water per second, four times as much as Niagara Falls. Five...
...Hurry to Leave. Present at the dedication of the Mangla dam last week were Guy F. Atkinson, who at 92 is still active as board chairman of the company, and his son, Company President George Atkinson. They founded their family-dominated enterprise in 1926 and brought it to its present top rank as a heavy-engineering outfit, specializing in hydroelectric projects...
Many Scarborough students however, are reportedly less enthusiastic. Some have compared it to a "medieval fortress" (the entire complex is self-enclosed with interior streets running between buildings); others, "a power dam or the Maginot Line." Dr. David Abbey, a member of an educational study group connected with the University of Toronto, said in a September speech that student reaction to the structure ranges from "apathy to hostility...