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...Pakistan, the Indus Basin project represents something more than national prestige. Until British India was partitioned into two nations, the area of West Pakistan served bv the dams got its water from rivers whose headwaters are now in unfriendly India. India will be free to cut off Pakistan's flow of water from the east in 1970 and use it for Indian purposes. Developing a whole new water system along the Indus, Pakistan must therefore have much of it ready by 1970, and is gladly paying bonuses to contractors who complete their portions ahead of schedule...
...Cascades, and at Bear Valley, Calif., a remote area in the northern Sierras that boasts the record U.S. annual snowfall-73 ft. in the winter of 1906-07. At Alta, Utah, a 5,100-ft.-long lift has been added to open up the powder-rich Albion Basin, until now accessible only by climbing on skis. Vail, Colo., has developed a whole new mountain called Golden Peak...
...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...
...subsequent success of Surveyors 3, 5 and 6 enabled scientists to complete their planned surveys of possible astronaut landing sites and left Surveyor 7-scheduled to be launched early in 1968-for use in a completely scientific mission. Scientists are currently considering landing it in a highland basin, where it could photograph and analyze high-altitude features not yet investigated by U.S. or Russian landers...
Captain Jane Chalmers and her teammates brought home the Victorian Coffee Urn from their own invitational regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin. It was won last year by M.I.T...