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...years Western states have battled tempestuously over rights to the Colorado River's precious water. Now the Upper Basin states had a brand-new source of hydroelectric power, the $400 million Glen Canyon Dam near the Utah-Arizona border. Operation was scheduled to begin in June. But that had to be postponed, chiefly because the water level in Lake Powell behind the dam was insufficient to turn the generators. Members of the four-state Upper Basin Commission performed figurative rain dances, hoping that by August the lake would have accumulated the 6.5 million acre-feet of water necessary...
Careening madly through the countryside in his Continental [April 10] endangers not only his precious hide and those unfortunates still trying to pry their fingers out of the upholstery, but all of the other young joy riders on whom we pay extra insurance premiums so they can chortle to frantic parents, "The President does it, so why shouldn...
Careening madly through the countryside in his Continental [April 10] endangers not only his precious hide and those unfortunates still trying to pry their fingers out of the upholstery, but all of the other young joy riders on whom we pay extra insurance premiums so they can chortle to frantic parents, "The President does it, so why shouldn...
...French West Indies were not al ways so serene. Discovered by Columbus in 1493, they proved a strategic gateway to the Caribbean, provoking a bloody succession of wars between the Spanish, English, Dutch and French. Though France finally won the precious necklace of islands in 1815, it was not until 1946 that the colonies became fullfledged departments of metropolitan France. Since then Paris has pumped in funds for new schools, roads, hospitals and public buildings. But while the islands' few small industries-sugar, bananas, pineapple and rum-expanded rapidly, wages stayed low and employment failed to keep pace with...
...high drama, one of those immensely satisfying political morality plays whose figures manage to embody our deepest aspirations confronted with our greatest fears. Point of Order suggests that we are wrong, that the hearings were nothing of the sort. In this film, there is no high drama, and precious few morals to be drawn. There is only a great deal of unconscious burlesque and procedural charade...