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Chief geographical feature, and chief hope of Palestine, is the extraordinary Jordan Valley, a deep "rift" which formed when a block of the earth's crust dropped several thousand feet. The lowest part, at the south, is filled by the Dead Sea, whose surface is 1,290 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...
...obvious way to use this water would be to divert it above sea level, north of Lake Tiberias. But this would sacrifice the power which the water would generate if allowed to fall into the deep Jordan rift. Besides, the Dead Sea, cut off from its water supply, would shrink or dry up; Palestine's planners do not want that. They proposed to solve the problem by an engineering stunt impossible anywhere else in the world...
Many a newsman believed that Harry Truman had given public evidence of a long-reported chilling in his relations with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Next day Jimmy Byrnes was just as emphatic that there had been no rift. Said he: "No man as Secretary of State could ever have more complete support from the President than I have...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...