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...walking smartly, looking physically fit and acting mentally alert. As the nation's early apprehensions faded, a new idea set in: perhaps the P.O.W.s had been humanely treated after all. That illusion was shattered last week. With all the known surviving prisoners safely home from Viet Nam, the dam of restraints broke, and tales of mistreatment and torture poured forth. Navy Commander Richard Stratton, best known for his deep bows and seemingly drugged appearance in a 1967 news conference, summed up the reports of many prisoners when he said: "I have been tortured, I have been beaten, I have...
...Arctic Circle, the long nights are thunderously lit by giant flares of blazing gas. It will soon light Western Europe and may one day heat New York. Two thousand miles to the southeast, gigantic cranes rear against the brilliant wilderness sky as they erect the skeleton of a new dam, half a mile long and 300 ft. high, across the frozen Angara River. Up in Yakutia, where temperatures dip to -90° F., reindeer-driven sleds bring supplies to geological-survey teams charting the wasteland for coal, iron...
...serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White House officials chose to evade and even to lie. Last week that dam of deceit seemed on the verge of collapse, spilling Watergate's contamination more widely than ever...
...without these facilities serious increases in air pollution could occur. It notes New York City's concern that the Catskill aqueduct, which supplies 40 per cent of the city's water, might be damaged by the project. It notes that the public safety could be endangered by the proposed dam, and that its rupture could inundate half the town of Cornwall. It notes the possible destruction of large portions of the striped bass population in the Hudson River, which provides spawning grounds for 80 to 90 per cent of the striped bass supply in the northeast United States. Although...
...passion about water, having seen rivers dry up in summer and sweep everything before them in spring floods. His first years in Congress were spent on bills to harness the Colorado, and the first thing he did after he bought his ranch was to put in a dam. "The prettiest sight you can see is seeing the dam filled up on the Pedernales. And one of the nicest sounds you can hear is the water at night going over the dam...