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...years Western states have battled tempestuously over rights to the Colorado River's precious water. Now the Upper Basin states had a brand-new source of hydroelectric power, the $400 million Glen Canyon Dam near the Utah-Arizona border. Operation was scheduled to begin in June. But that had to be postponed, chiefly because the water level in Lake Powell behind the dam was insufficient to turn the generators. Members of the four-state Upper Basin Commission performed figurative rain dances, hoping that by August the lake would have accumulated the 6.5 million acre-feet of water necessary...
...Dominy's recommendation, Udall ordered Glen Canyon's gates opened. That was like pulling the plug on one bathtub and letting the water drain into another (see map). In this case, the Glen Canyon water flowed, at 18,000 cu. ft. per sec., 370 miles downriver to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. The water is still running, which is fine for the folks in Phoenix and Los Angeles. But the water loss to the Upper Basin is drying up Lake Powell, and with it the hopes there for new electric power in the near future...
...Powell. Chief spokesman was gruff old (80) Edwin Carl Johnson, Colorado's longtime Senator (1937-55) and Governor (1933-37; 1955-57), now a member of the commission. Johnson accused Udall of "perfidy" and "stupidity," quizzed Dominy for more than an hour, charged that the release of Glen Canyon's water was a breach of contract with the Upper Basin states and a waste of water as well, predicted that "given several dry years, the Upper Basin would not have a drop of water left...
...must have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned...
...acres, destroyed and damaged 30 homes and caused total losses estimated at more than $5,000,000. That fire would be recorded in the disaster logbook alongside the 1961 Bel Air fire that wiped out 484 homes, the 1958 Malibu fire that destroyed 72 houses, and the 1938 Topanga Canyon blaze that leveled 350 homes...