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...alternate ways to dam the turbulent Snake River between Idaho and Oregon: 1) a single, high federal dam costing $400 million, which would generate 800,000 kw., or 2) three low, privately built dams costing $190 million, which would generate 783,000 kw. The FPC licensed the Idaho Power Co.'s low-dam plan on grounds that Congress was reluctant to pay for the high dam. Idaho Power promptly went to work on Brownlee Dam, first of its three low dams, even though public power groups went to court to block it. Gambling on winning its case, the company...
...thousands of U.S. gardeners, the best reading of the winter comes when the postman delivers the spring catalogue of Jackson & Perkins Co., the world's biggest rose growers. This spring the J. & P. catalogue displayed more than 120 different varieties of roses in all floral colors except blue, breathlessly described them in the rosiest of prose. Among the new roses to dream over were Aida ("displays the same majestic grandeur and dark beauty as its namesake"), Golden Fleece ("performs with all the grace and beauty of a flirting ballerina") and Spartan ("no race of men ever existed as strong...
...screenplay was done by Paul Rader, 33, now a Boston television producer, who adapted a script written by Willis O'Brien, the Hollywood special-effects man who put the chill into oldtime movies, e.g., King Kong. After the Oscar-awarding show, Rader got a wooden Oscar from his co-workers bearing the inscription: "To Paul Rader, for the best story borrowed in 1956." Said Rader: "I'm convinced that it [The Brave Owe] came from my script." (The Nassour brothers claim their suit was recently settled out of court...
Though The Short Reign of Pippin IV (a May co-selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club) is a fable that makes no claims for itself beyond the desire to please, its author waters Aesop with Alsop, mixes persiflage with prescriptions for the ills of modern France. The satiric lapses into the pontifical ("The French are a moral people-judged, that is, by American country-club standards"). Pippin makes a charming king-for-a-day, but the joke goes on for so long that those who come to laugh may stay to yawn. Hélas, political reality...
Olivia, attractive outgoing, and perhaps sixteen, enters Miss Julie's small school in the country, where she quickly becomes everybody's favorite. She discovers student loyalty is divided between Miss Julie and Miss Cara, an attractive co-directress of the school. The girls, aged ten to twenty, all in dismal grey uniforms and knee socks, correctly type Olivia as a probable Miss Julie supporter; Olivia not only supports, but falls completely in love with her heady, bewitching principal...