Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This will be a difficult task. Difficult because at times our next President must tell the people not what they want to hear but what they need to hear. Why, for example, it may be just as essential to the national interest to build a dam in India as in California. It will be difficult, too, because we Americans have always been able to see and understand the danger presented by missiles and airplanes and bombs, but we found it hard to recognize the even more deadly danger of the propaganda that warps the mind, the economic offensive that softens...
...that throughout history such excesses have generally followed in the wake of heady new freedom won at last by people who have previously been treated like dogs. Freedom permits open expression of hatred that has been seething for years, and that hatred bursts like water from a broken dam. For the moment there is terror, but it does not last, just as the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution did not last...
Died. André Coyne, 69, French engineer and developer of the revolutionary thin-walled arch dam, whose designs have been used on five continents, include Rhodesia's giant new Kariba project and France's ill-fated Malpasset dam which gave way last December taking 421 lives, a disaster that French investigators attribute to a landslide rather than faulty design; following surgery; in Paris...
...which could be tapped by wells to supplement the river supply. DLF officials mulled it over. Finally, when President Eisenhower paid his brief visit to Tunisia last December, Bourguiba told him that a Soviet trade mission had suggested that Russia would be only too willing to help build the dam if the U.S. did not. The DLF sent an expert to make a study. He reported tnat the Tunisians were right: there was enough underground water. Last week DLF announced that it would lend Tunisia $18 million, enough to assure the building of the dam and the drilling...
...dam, to be completed in 1965, will irrigate 11,000 acres, is expected to yield an extra $4,000,000 worth of crops each year. Above all, it promises to help insure social stability in a land whose poverty works against stability...