Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons could describe it: "Marguerite Young's new novel is so big that if its air conditioning is turned off, clouds form inside. Its electrical system contains 11,425 miles of copper wire. None of it connected. The cement that went into its construction could build Grand Coulee Dam, with enough left over to fill a wash tub into which might be placed the feet of the Scribner's editor who okayed it for publication...
...Dams are needed for hydroelectricity and to create water reservoirs. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is seeking to build a storage facility on Storm King Mountain overlooking the Hudson 55 miles north of Manhattan; the Army Corps of Engineers has plans to dam Alaska's Yukon River at Rampart Canyon into a lake the size of New Jersey that could water the U.S. West Coast...
Conservationists claim that Storm King's outlets would destroy fish life and that a major portion of Alaska's wildlife would be flooded out by the Rampart dam. Outlook: unsettled, with storms...
...California's Point Reyes and Texas' Padre Island. Protests from an aroused public stopped Maryland from installing a sewage disposal plant across the Potomac from Mount Vernon. Rainbow Bridge in Utah, the largest natural bridge in the world, would have had its underpinnings gnawed away by a dam-created lake had not conservationists made a case...
Alpine Silence. In twenty seconds the work camp was buried a hundred feet beneath a blanket of ice. No sound came from the injured or trapped. There was only the Alpine silence, broken by the rippling of the Viege River. The dam itself was untouched. Next day, Swiss soldiers and rescue workers clawed at the mass in a drenching rain, once interrupting the search to run for their lives when word came that cracks in another large section of the glacier threatened to dump more ice onto the valley floor. Groaned one engineer: "This is like chipping away...