Word: canal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...removed, The African Queen evokes all the tension of a journey from Harvard Square to Park Street; only once does Huston create a moving conflict, when Allnut, effectively de-leeched, realizes he must go back into the leech-infested swamp in order to extricate the boat from the muddy canal...
Prestige & Necessity. To build Tarbela's 9,000-ft.-long, 470-ft-high main embankment, nearly as much earth will have to be shifted as was excavated for the Panama Canal. Four half-mile-long tunnels, each 45 ft. in diameter, must be dug through the rock of surrounding mountains to bring water into the electric generators and irrigation releases. Eventually a 50-mile reservoir will form behind the dam to provide water for crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season...
...Division-the most mobile and professional outfits remaining in the U.S.-based strategic Reserve. This leaves intact just three regular Army divisions-committed to NATO and not organized for fast deployment to underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent the thin green line from getting thinner still, the Administration may well have to put major Reserve ground components...
Irrigation Ditch. Aside from the grief over the dozen or so casualties, no one seemed overly distressed by the new impasse. Though their battered economy is losing $5,000,000 a week in tolls, the Egyptians do not really seem all that anxious to open the canal, apparently hoping that as long as it remains closed the maritime nations will put pressure on Israel to withdraw from its east bank. The Israelis, on the other hand, have no intention of letting the canal open so long as they are denied its use. As for the U.S., it seems quite content...
...longer the canal stays shut, the harder it will be to open. Silt is piling up in the canal so fast in the absence of dredging operations since June that five feet of navigable depth have already been lost. "If the canal stays closed another year," said an American engineer in Beirut last week, "it will be in such bad shape that they might as well turn it into an irrigation ditch and plant potatoes around it." Even the Egyptians seemed to be looking for alternatives: off to London last week went an official delegation to discuss construction...