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...vote for Egypt's great dam...
...managed to make a film biography of the Indian leader, he wanted her to play the part of the star photojournalism Bourke-White captured in the pages of FORTUNE the gritty, yet poetic texture of industrial America in the 1930s, and her shot of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the first cover of LIFE. Bergen took to the shutter when her film career faltered, and in 1972 also made the cover of LIFE with her portrait of Comedian Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona. Still, it will take all of Bergen's technique on both sides...
...time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
Economists generally agree that the Reagan defense buildup should not necessarily cause more inflation. Says Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution: "Defense spending does not automatically add to inflationary pressures. Buying a weapons system is not economically different from buying a dam or paying somebody to teach on an Indian reservation." But after the Viet Nam experience, skeptics will be watching closely for any signs of added inflation from the new military buildup. -By Alexander Taylor...
Leading European electric companies reportedly paid as much as $140 million in payoffs and kickbacks to win a share of the business in the construction of the $10 billion Itaipu Dam that is being built jointly by Brazil and Paraguay. Reports a U.S. business executive who watched the bidding unfold: "The European managers had unlimited authority. They paid cash into half a dozen Swiss bank accounts, and the money trickled down...