Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasser scheduled as few meetings as possible, instead loaded the visitor's schedule with trips to Nasser's pet projects, notably the Aswan Dam, where 2,000 Russian technicians could hardly escape Chou's notice. What with some $1.5 billion in Soviet aid and heavy dependence on U.S. wheat to feed Egypt, Nasser has had strained relations with Peking of late. Days before Chou's arrival, his press belatedly chided China for its attack on India...
...knew our homes were lost and our lives changed forever." Sheik Mardani's lament was for himself and 100,000 other Nubians in Egypt who last week were being evacuated from their ancestral homeland on the Nile banks. The exodus was necessary because the Aswan High Dam, being built by Egypt with Russian help, next spring will back up the Nile, creating a huge 1,800-sq.-mi. reservoir that eventually will give Egypt vast new irrigated acres and electric power. But it will also flood the gaily painted houses of the Nubians, their cemeteries, mosques and groves...
Wild Valley. In their wild, inaccessible valley, the Nubians prospered tranquilly for centuries until the first As wan low dam was built in 1902. The rising Nile water drove the villagers farther up the cliffs, and the process was repeated in 1912 and 1933 as the dam was successively raised to a height of 182 ft. Half of Nubia's 30,000 arable acres were lost and the remaining 15,000 could only be hastily cultivated when the Nile...
...project, the British Rothschilds put together a consortium to tap the timber, minerals and hydro power of a 53,000-sq.-mi. area in Newfoundland. Next spring the British Newfoundland Corp., with both the British and the French Rothschilds represented, will begin a $1 billion, seven-year job to dam Hamilton Falls and harness its 6,000,000 h.p. It will be the world's biggest hydroelectric development, and Sir Winston Churchill has called the whole project "a grand imperial concept...
...pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey match to raise funds for victims of the recent Italian dam disaster; in Toronto...