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...JEFF ATKINSON Evanston...
...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...
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...
...broke out between India and Pakistan. Though the battle line came within 50 miles of the site, only nightwork was stopped, since the camp had to be blacked out. The contractors were racing to complete the project ahead of schedule and collect a $6,000,000 bonus, which the Atkinson consortium counted on when it set its price-$20 million under the next lowest...
...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...