Word: colombia
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INTO MEXICO CITY'S swank Reforma Hotel checked Panama's chastened ex-President Arnulfo Arias Madrid. Dr. Arias, who had been briefly in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala since his drubbing at the hands of the electoral jury in Panama's presidential elections (TIME, Aug. 16), spoke some nice words about Mexico, then asked permission to settle there and practice medicine...
Chickens & Whistles. Ever since the Conquistadores, the long (1,071 miles), broad Magdalena has been Colombia's chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...
...order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
Last week, to fill a gap in U.S. information, Royall announced a survey of the least known of the possible alternate routes-across the watersheds of the Atrato and Truandó rivers in northwest Colombia. A joint U.S.-Colombian commission will start a full-dress survey within 60 days. The work will take about six weeks, will cost $150,000. The findings will be considered by the U.S. Congress when it gets around-perhaps next year-to redefining U.S. canal policy...
...feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change its mind and give the U.S. air bases, the survey will be well worth its cost...