Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West customarily thinks big, but the new plan was impressive even by Western standards. It called for the creation of the world's largest electric-power complex, which would dwarf the TVA and the Grand Coulee Dam, produce as much power as 17 Aswan high dams (or about a 36 million-kw. generating capacity) and make Russia's biggest hydroelectric project at Bratsk in Siberia seem modest. Ten Western power companies and the municipally owned Los Angeles Water & Power Dept. announced last week that they expect to spend $10.5 billion on this project in the next two decades...
...trip billed by Lady Bird as a "land and people tour," she charged into Montana, Utah and Wyoming with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall for four days that averaged more than 18 hours each -ostensibly to create interest in tourism and conservation and to dedicate the $81.2 million Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah. But she never missed a chance to clutch hands and to praise needy candidates. In Montana she described Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield as one of Lyndon's "oldest and most trusted friends." In Utah she told the folks that Senator Frank Moss is "always watching...
...confined to the air, Lockheed's flair is currently being applied to projects on land and under the sea. Pushed to spread out and diversify by Chairman Courtlandt Gross, company engineers are building a $12 million dam in Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor...
SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention getter is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...
...this self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn't go through. But before Denney can rouse...