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...Aswan High Dam, at once Egypt's greatest new economic resource and symbol of national pride, was completed last week after ten years of the most arduous construction work since the pharaohs put up the pyramids. As the dam has risen to 350 ft. above the Nile, so has the reputation of the man who built it: Osman Ahmed Osman, the largest building contractor...
...Soviet power shovels and drills could not cope with the granite, and trucks broke down in the heat. Osman convinced Nasser that only Swedish, British and Japanese equipment would get the $920 million job done on time. His project was completed on schedule, and now the turbines below the dam can generate 500 megawatts, or one half of Egypt's power production...
When a virgin and a gypsy meet in fiction, one of them is due for alteration. Observing the classic literary conventions, Director Christopher Miles causes a dam to break during the sexual crescendo. At the finale, Yvette turns a smoothly tapered back on her family, climbs into Mrs. Fawcett's roadster and motors into the 20th century...
...celebrates the anniversary of its freedom, the country is at peace. The copper mines of Katanga are working at full capacity. At Inga Rapids, a project to begin damming the Congo River is under way at last. Its first stage, a 150-megawatt dam, will be finished by 1972. Even the interior city of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, which suffered terrible damage during the Simba rebellion of 1964-65, is returning to life. The town glitters with a coat of fresh paint in honor of a visit by Belgium's King Baudouin, who arrived in the Congo for the anniversary...
...less permanent. Even if he wanted to work-to return to the mental place where people get up at 7:30 and go off and do things all day and eat well and have "homes" and other attachments-he probably could not do it. Too much water over the dam. Too many ways of being that he has lost, and cannot understand...