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...literary side of military life is one too often overlooked. The Defense Department's huge public relations staff, the Steve Canyon comic strip it encourages, and the books it distributes to its troops all attest to the fact that military men recognize the power...
...Main-Stream Question. In 1928's Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the Hoover Dam system on the Colorado, Congress settled on water quotas for the states involved. Assuming the normal flow of the lower Colorado to be 7.5 million acre-feet per year *Congress assigned 4.4 million to California, 2.8 million to Arizona, 300,000 to Nevada. Any flow in excess of 7.5 million was to be divided equally between California and Arizona. The essential question was whether the 1928 formula applied only to the main stream of the river, as Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus...
...tractor-trailer truck. Eleven other trucks and two cars crumpled together. One truck passenger and five truck drivers-one of them 14 vehicles back-were killed. Baker suffered a minor neck injury. >Construction Worker Samuel Brown was eager to get away from northern Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam-and with good reason. It was his 21st birthday, next day was the holiday and also the opening of the Utah fishing season. He was too eager. As he tried to pass a car on a curve near the town of Glendale, Utah, a truck carrying 27 tons of steel headed...
...putting such words into Copper's mouth, Cartoonist Milton Caniff insists that he has nothing against Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara; he is merely trying to keep his Steve Canyon comic strip topical. Well, that he is. For the chorus of criticism against McNamara is one of the liveliest conversational topics in Washington nowadays...
...Department of the Interior, its engineers and geologists to the contrary [April 26], Colorado River water backed up by the Glen Canyon Dam will endanger Rainbow Natural Bridge. The bridge and its foundations are sandstone, and sandstone absorbs water irrespective of planned diversion dams and tunnels. As a member of the discovery party, Aug. 14, 1909, I am loath to see that masterpiece destroyed, whatever the excuse...