Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yardstick of fiction, John Updike, 28, has written one of the year's most important novels. Like last year's Poorhouse Fair, his new book is bitterly anchored in Thoreau's belief that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but in this story, the restraining dam breaks to let loose such relentless despair as is seldom found in U.S. writing...
Harry had a glancing blow for Dwight Eisenhower ("No Eisenhower veto ever built a dam, or helped a farmer"), but his choicest epithets were reserved for Vice President Nixon: "Tricky Dicky Nixon is cut from the same cloth-don't make any mistake about that. Nixon is against the small farmer, against small business, against labor, against public housing, against public power. Come to think of it, I don't know what the hell he is for. And that bird still has the nerve to come to Texas and ask you to vote...
...bloc, Sir Abubakar is clearly antiCommunist, is known to support Dag Hammarskjold's policy in the Congo. Generally, his sympathies lie with Britain and with the U.S., which he visited in 1955 to study the water flow of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in connection with a planned dam of his own on the Niger. He will make his second U.S. trip this week, leading independent Nigeria's first delegation to the U.N. General Assembly meeting in Manhattan...
...decision. There is nothing new about any of this, but Black puts it in a simple, exemplary fashion that makes the cant of the campaign seem properly absurd. "The mere fact that a river runs down-hill very fast," he says, "is not sufficient reason to build a power dam...
...must ask whether the construction of a power dam would meet some important objective; that is, would it provide power for a market that already exists or is in prospect? Would it provide irrigation waters for land which can be made arable in this way and on which farmers might be willing to settle? Would it provide benefits in terms of flood control? Then one must ask whether a big power dam is the best way of meeting any or all of these objectives. Alternative possibilities, as a thermal power plant or a simple irrigation barrage, or both, have...