Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straight through the '50s, and Galbraith, despite his unorthodox methods, belongs on the list. "The Great Mogul," as he was called by the embassy staff, won no plaudits for such stunts as wading barefoot in a paddyfield or carrying sacks of cement on his head at a dam construction site. Nonetheless, he achieved a remarkable rapport with Nehru, a man who, he says, was "touched with magic." He also performed with great, still unappreciated distinction during the 1962 Chinese border invasion. "The Indians panicked," says one former assistant. "They just didn't know what to do, and for about...
...come a little closer to Dalat last week when a dam and power station outside of town were sabotaged by the VC. The resulting flood wiped out a quarter mile of the Phan Rang/Nha Trang road (the coastal road). Gasoline and rice used to be brought into Dalat by this road. Speculation is that both commodities will be rationed until the road is repaired--and that could take months. That's too bad--just getting used to 'com' (rice) and the lack of buoyancy of landrovers, Vespas, and jeeps on the pot-holed and dirt roads
...with braces on their teeth and sturdy blonde women waving Soviet flags. The Russians and their families, in fact, almost eclipsed the Egyptians at last week's ceremony marking the dedication of a memorial to Soviet-Egyptian friendship and the completion of major construction on the Aswan High Dam, whose 364-ft.-high wall of concrete and clay blocks the Nile 560 miles upstream from Cairo. Because Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev decided not to come as planned and sent a deputy instead. Gamal Abdel Nasser made it even more of a Soviet show by staying away...
...Ballet. The Soviets now run the biggest development program in an area that desperately needs industrialization. Their engineers have started work on a dam on the Euphrates that will supply electricity to much of Syria, and are prospecting for oil in Egypt. In all, Soviet teams are engaged in 100 or so major projects, including the construction of a steel plant in Algeria, a railroad in Iraq, a machine-tool plant in Iran, and a fish-meal factory in Yemen. Russian culture follows the Red flag. In Alexandria, young girls are quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened...
Over and over, this theme is pressed home. What we Americans rely on our machines to do, the Vietnamese do with their hands. You don't have to take Greene's word for it. He shows you. A flood control dam, for instance. One bomb would destroy it. But then we see pleasants carrying buckets of water from a river to irrigation ditches, the way they have always done it. How many bombs will it take to destroy this method, the commentator asks. A railroad bridge is destroyed, and we see women fire-brigade-line-style lifting rocks to prop...