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...ridges, laid out like city streets around a central plaza. The ridges look like defensive works, but Ford thinks they were built for people to live on. Their total length is 11.2 miles, and when newly built, they must have contained more than 530,000 cubic yards of earth...
...second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet high and 2½ miles long; its 70 million cubic yards of earth and stone exceed by 20 times the bulk of Egypt's Great Pyramid. It is scheduled for completion next year...
...Israelis rejoiced last week over their advance into the Negev, more sober officials realized that they had gone about as far south as they could go. In committing the Yarkon they had mortgaged almost their entire available water supply. (In fact, part of the annual 7 trillion cubic feet of water that will flow through the pipeline will be reclaimed from Tel Aviv's sewers...
...Continental Divide (TIME, May 10, 1954). It has been ticklish work; the very reason for blasting away the hillside was that it threatened to slide into and block the canal-carrying with it the nervy men who were destroying it. Last week the danger ended. With 3,000,000 cubic yards of rock removed, engineers believed that the remaining potential slide-rock was too light to break loose. They will go on to remove the last 500,000 cubic yards, however. Then Contractor's Hill, once a sheer wall when seen from the canal, will be a terraced slope...
...Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, were in huddles all week long, much of the time with an advisory committee of top virologists, trying to figure out what to do. One bright suggestion, from state health officials: try giving only 1½ drops (Vw cc.) of vaccine, instead of a whole cubic centimeter, to stretch the supply. Furthermore, inject it not into the muscle, as now, but under the skin or between the skin's layers (in hopes that this is less likely to provoke paralysis). At week's end the advisers and PHS decided against this course because...