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...Hell's Canyon dam would repay its cost--plus interest", challenged one of the attackers. The figure at the piano lapsed from Stravinsky to Gershwin. "Besides, think of the rise in kilowatts...
Concluded Branch: while there have been some "favorable developments," e.g., Idaho Power Co.'s Hell's Canyon project, Alabama Power Co.'s Coosa River project, "the danger is that while counting our blessings, we may minimize the threats that confront us from a dozen directions...
America-Conscious. Wide, Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC) has never quite managed the splendor imagined by its creator, but its TV cameras have looked into the Grand Canyon, crossed the seas to Bimini and Cuba, and gone over the border to Mexico and Canada. Under the guidance of M.C. Dave Garroway, the show has penetrated Carlsbad Caverns, looked east and west from the Continental Divide, plunged underwater in Florida. Up to 60 TV cameras have been used on a single show. Inaccessible spots were joined to the network by 75,000 miles of circuit cables, and more than...
...slopes of Washington's Mt. Hood. On his last day he and five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead...