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...defense alert last week (see cut), New York's Mayor Robert Wagner appeared wan and haggard. Wagner recently underwent an operation for a nonmalignant tumor, but his troubled look could have had another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that operates from a city pier. One commission finding: Sanders paid "several...
...most of its upper vastness, the Colorado River Basin has long seemed to be dying of thirst. The Colorado has merely rushed through the landscape, unharnessed for use by man, leaving behind only magnificent wasteland. Last week, as Interior Secretary Stewart Udall inspected the giant dam rising across Glen Canyon in northwest Arizona, it was apparent that the Upper Colorado Basin was at last on its way to becoming a land of incomparable opportunity...
...Machines. But the key to the entire development of the Upper Colorado is Arizona's 700-ft. Glen Canyon Dam. When completed in 1964, the structure will have a capacity of 900,000 kw. of electricity, back up Lake Powell through 186 miles of some of the most dramatic scenery in the U.S. The job of building Glen Canyon compares in sheer size with the land itself. Workers erected from scratch the town of Page, which now has a population of 7,000. A giant refrigeration plant daily turns out 4,000 tons of ice to cool the concrete...
...Transport Service officer, he learned to fly to know a pilot's problems. After the war he went to McCulloch Corp., helped build it up from a tiny company housed in Quonset huts. He took his wife on outboard races on the rough Colorado River through the Grand Canyon ("How can you" be in a business without knowing the product...
...John Tower, 34, a onetime government professor at West Texas State College-at Canyon-and the only authentic Republican of the lot-is a Nixon-endorsed Goldwater conservative, ran against Lyndon Johnson for the Senate last November and pocketed 41% of the statewide vote, a record in Texas...