Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made up of mere matter. Yet it obviously consists of some arrangement of molecules in the brain that work collectively to remember and reason. Last week in San Francisco, a score of the world's most eminent scientists of the mind heard Swedish Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (pronounced he-dam), 43, offer a theory about the chemistry of thought. Hyden, who is chief of tissue studies at the University of Goteborg, even named a chemical that dictators might use to disrupt the thought process and enslave the minds of their subjects...
...conflicting pressures on the score of waverers who could not be safely counted on either side reached a nerve-fraying intensity. One shaky Southern Congressman switched back and forth half a dozen times within the week. A freshman Congressman got an offer of a dam for his home district if he would vote with Rayburn. A pressure campaign organized by the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Farm Bureau Federation and other conservative lobbies deluged Congressmen with letters and telegrams urging them to vote against the Rayburn plan. With matching ardor, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the civil rights lobbies tried...
...years, on and off, the U.S. and Canada had been talking about a treaty providing for cooperative development of the Columbia River, and the failure to agree on such a treaty had slowed up the growth of the U.S. Northwest. Example: the Libby Dam project in northwestern Montana had been stalled for a decade because Canada was reluctant to see a U.S. dam built on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary that rises in Canada, crosses into the U.S., then swings northward across the border again...
...treaty will enable the U.S. and Canada to realize more of the Columbia's vast power potential and to forestall the spring floods, too. Under the treaty's provisions, Canada will set about building three storage and power dams, and the U.S. will go ahead with Libby Dam. Over the course of its 60-year lifetime, the treaty envisions U.S. and Canadian power and flood-control projects costing a total of some $4 billion. Canada will receive one-half of the electric power generated by U.S. projects built under the treaty...
...peace corps can and cannot do will be determined in large measure by what the potential beneficiaries most urgently need, and by the somewhat limited qualifications of the participants. Young people, recently graduated from college, obviously cannot provide the advanced technical advice required to help help build a dam or to plan an economy; here aid must still depend on more mature professional personnel. On the other hand, the nations of Africa and Asia have quite enough unskilled labor, and a number of young Americans in an overseas "work camp" will accomplish nothing the underdeveloped countries couldn...