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Unable to compete in economic aid, Red China sent in 22,000 laborers, who have built dams, brick kilns, a glass factory, and a 50,000-kw. power plant. The blue-clad laborers (known locally as "blue ants") were promised land in Mongolia, but when the Mongols clearly lined up...
For centuries, the sunbaked southern French provinces known as the Midi eked out their living supplying the rest of France with table wines; when the grapes were poor, so were the farmers. But no more. Today, along with wine, growing shipments of melons, asparagus, peaches and strawberries flow from the...
Modernizing Napoleon. A side of Charles de Gaulle seldom glimpsed from abroad is his concern for the human condition of France. The government must tackle a vast backlog of "renovation," in a favorite Gaullist phrase, before the nation can hope for new housing, adequate schools, modern highways. Half the houses...
Cheaper by Water. To shore up the sandy, crumbling banks of the Arkansas, the project will spend $118.5 million alone on dikes and retaining walls. To control the silt, two large dams will be built on major tributaries to the Arkansas: the Eufaula on the Canadian River and the Oologah...
Nimble Logroller. This is the kind of growth Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr vowed the project would bring to the region when he set out to sell the program to a skeptical Senate. As chairman of the Senate's Rivers and Harbors Subcommittee. Kerr had plenty...