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When the doors of northwest Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School swung open last month, only 18 pupils trooped in. Rattling about in the nearly empty school, which had been built to accommodate 430, were 14 whites and four Negroes, whose mingling was part of Florida's first...
Forest rangers, highway patrolmen, Air Force and Yellowstone Park rescuers who poured into the area were appalled by what they found. Near where the Bennetts' camp had been, a huge slide of more than 7,500,000 tons of rock from the side of a 7,600-ft.-mountain...
One of the easiest ways to start an argument in the U.S. is to propose damming a river. Last week the fights over two big dam projects which have been through long controversies were settled.
Damned Sea. Ley also likes hydraulic engineering that works in reverse. If the Red Sea, for instance, were dammed at the Strait of Bab El Mandeb (its southern extremity) and the Suez Canal were closed, its level would fall through evaporation at a rate of more than 12 ft. a...
In the hope of turning the flow inward and damming it into a reservoir to serve the public, Idaho legalized slot machines on a local-option basis in 1947. Heavy license fees were imposed. But the results were weird and astounding. Though the state legally controlled them, the slots acted...