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Pattern for Progress. It is along the Gulf Coast, where Texas has had its greatest industrial growth, that the state has its major water problem. To the east of Corpus Christi are flooding rivers, and to the west, drought has brought a "little dust bowl." The Bureau recommends a vast $1.1 billion project to build reservoirs along the eastern rivers and channel their flow into a "trans-basin water supply canal," which would swing in a broad arc parallel to the coast and would irrigate 1,000,000 acres of dust-dry farmland. Estimated costs: $370 million for the reservoirs...
...Corpus Christi, Texas...
...Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico...
Beneath a bright Gulf Coast sun near Corpus Christi last week, 20,000 visitors trooped curiously through Reynolds Metals Co.'s spanking new $80 million aluminum plant. They ate free Eskimo Pies* and hotdogs kept warm on freshly poured pigs of aluminum, while a high-school band blared Whistle While You Work. Reynolds Metals' pudgy, 43-year-old President Richard S. Reynolds Jr.† had something to whistle about: he now has the world's biggest aluminum pot-line...
...sophomores will divide their summer between learning the techniques of amphibious warfare at Little Creek, Va., and aviation, which is tentatively scheduled for Corpus Christi, Texas...