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> Sundrum Castle, five miles southeast of Prestwick, was built before the 14th century, remodeled into a superb example of an 18th century baronial mansion. Set on a wooded hillside, its 160-acre site affords excellent facilities for shooting and salmon fishing. Guests dine on the very spot where manacled prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Fit for a King | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Some two miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh lies a stretch of land called Panther Hollow, more colloquially known as "The Gulch." The jagged, 1,000-ft.-wide ravine runs 150 ft. deep and a mile long, an ugly supergully slashing between the green campuses of Carnegie Institute of Technology and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Renaissance, Phase 2 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

The Main-Stream Question. In 1928's Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the Hoover Dam system on the Colorado, Congress settled on water quotas for the states involved. Assuming the normal flow of the lower Colorado to be 7.5 million acre-feet per year *Congress assigned 4.4 million to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Battle of the Colorado | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

On the Rocks. The court's ruling cast a smog of gloom upon California. The state is currently using more than 5,000,000 acre-feet a year from the Colorado, and water needs are increasing relentlessly, so the 4.4 million quota seemed dismayingly skimpy. "If you order Scotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Battle of the Colorado | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

* An acre-foot is the quantity of water it would take to cover a flat one-acre surface to a depth of one foot-325,851 gallons.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West: Battle of the Colorado | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

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