Word: dam
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...southern neighbor, the Sudan. It worked. Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland by 30% and multiply its electric power eightfold. Since the Nile travels 1,900 miles through the Sudan before reaching Egypt, the Sudanese were strategically placed to cut off Nasser's water if they chose...
...ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville, Ore. in the mid '30s, he turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay Bedford, a boyhood chum, who is now general manager of Kaiser Aircraft & Electronics. Swift currents and widely varying water levels made the job a tough problem-but the dam was finished...
When the new High Dam at Aswam, Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
...Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There is no difference between a great majority of leaders of both political parties in firmly standing behind the President ... in supporting the fight of the people of Berlin and the world to achieve the kind of government they want...
...over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear in Dam Square spent their evenings in subdued conversation-and in the red-light district there was not a nozem to be seen...