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...face of the land is also changing through vast engineering projects like the 425-mile Rajasthan Canal and the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, both being built largely by hand labor. By contrast, Bombay boasts a modern, $55 million atomic power plant. Indian nuclear physicists could easily build an atomic bomb in a year to 18 months, but India has no real military use for it. Still, India may well be forced to develop nuclear weapons if only to recapture international prestige, particularly since Red China has begun exploding atomic devices...
...Senate seemed to be considering nothing more momentous than a proposal to plant petunias on the Capitol mall. Rarely were more than a few dozen Senators on hand to take part in the debate. Others strolled in occasionally from the cloakrooms to interrupt the proceedings with speeches about dam projects in their home states. In the presiding officer's chair, New York Democrat Robert F. Kennedy leafed idly through a sheaf of clippings about his recent raft trip down the Yampa and Green rivers in Colorado and Utah. After four days of desultory debate, it was all over. Medicare...
Although the tangled weed abounds in nearly every tropical and subtropical part of the world, the scientists reported, it can be as unpredictable as it is prolific. It sometimes grows below a dam but not above it. In some places, once destroyed, the plant does not grow back; in most other places, it returns as tough as ever. On the Nile, where Egypt spends $1,500,000 annually on hyacinth eradication with dredges and herbicides, the plants cluster to form islands strong enough to support animals. "You can never let up," says William E. Wunderlich, aquatic growth control chief...
...years in which to accomplish one of the most intricate and delicate moving jobs in history-the removal to safe high ground of the fabled 3,000-year-old Temples of Abu Simbel on Egypt's Upper Nile (TIME, Nov. 23, 1959, et seq.). When the High Dam at Aswan is completed, the backed-up Nile waters will have inundated the present site of the temples. Last week an exhibition depicting this vast rescue operation opened in the Exhibition Center of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan, the first place in the U.S. where it will be on view.It...
...means confine themselves to making loans, collections and money transfers for American enterprise. The Chase Bank helped to bankroll Turkey's largest industrial project, the new Eregli Iron and Steel Works; the Bank of America contributed to auto plants in Brazil and France and to the Mangla Dam between India and Pakistan. To attract the rising consumer classes overseas, many of the U.S. banks also offer loans to small borrowers, who often find it impossible to get credit from more conservative local banks and are willing to pay interest charges of 8% to 10% or even more. This year...