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...Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining channels, removing snags and other obstructions, and by straightening bends, the engineers reduced flow resistance. Combined with local expenditures, these federal programs will eventually provide for 87 million acre-feet of flood-control storage in 219 reservoirs in the U.S., more than 9,000 miles of levees and floodwalls, and about...
...pioneer trend setter has been KMOX, CBS's St. Louis station, whose 50 kw., clear channel signal sweeps the plains and burrows into the valleys of a large part of mid-America. Last year General Manager Robert Hyland, fed up with 24 hours of music, decided on a final gamble before getting out. His novel plan: skip the disks for four prime hours daily and substitute news, interviews, listener questions and erudite conversationalists. After what Hyland recalls was "the longest pause in broadcasting," station staffers agreed to give...
...membership was carefully distributed to avoid reflecting world power divisions. Its statutes were painstakingly designed to assure thorough exploration of the issues. But more and more the World Court has proved to be the court of minor resort; e.g., Britain and France amiably dispute ownership of the tiny Channel Islands-which neither really wants much. Since the Court cannot force a nation to submit to its jurisdiction, both partners to a dispute must agree to let the Court rule. In big issues, agreement is rare...
...naive; according to her friend and neighbor, Walter Slezak. "A certain line of smut goes past her." She is still awed by some occasions. Before a television appearance,, she had the shakes so badly that Jack Paar had to wrap her in his bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through the ear.' '' Possibly if Bernard Shaw had known American women better, he might have invented...
...sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...