Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard times on the Beaver Dam Road...
Proffitt lives near Beaver Dam Road in Watauga County, North Carolina. His voice is flat, coarse, aloof and unsentimental. Close your eyes and you can smell the corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have...
Hard times on the Beaver Dam Road...
From its start in January 1960. the project has gone badly. Full Soviet plans were not ready until eight months later, and have changed repeatedly since. The Russians believed it would be easy and inexpensive to build an opencut channel around the dam. But the massive Soviet drills-of a type that was obsolete in the West 25 years ago- failed to make headway in Egypt's volcanic rock. Over Soviet protests, Nasser ordered batteries of light, rubber-tired rock drills from Sweden, and imported Swedish rock engineers to supervise their operation. Even so. in temperatures...
...Harder Than Space. Twice this summer. Nasser sent delegations to Moscow demanding more and better service. In July the Russians agreed to fire the Soviet project director. Dr. Ivan Kosmin. who had built the great Kuibyshev Dam on the Volga. His replacement. Dr. Alexander Alexandrov. took one quick look at Aswan and rushed back to Moscow to ask for more machines and technicians. The most ominous result of these stops and starts, plan changes and equipment failures, was that rock excavation fell far behind schedule, with only 7,300.000 out of a total of 26 million tons of granite drilled...