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...Justice Department has put numberless grand juries to work trying to dig up dirt on Teamsters Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa. During the past seven years, Hoffa was haled into federal courts four times on various charges-and four times he walked away laughing. But last week Justice Department Aide Walter Sheridan bolted out of a Chattanooga federal courtroom and put in a telephone call to his boss. "We made it!" Sheridan barked happily. "Nice work," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who has been making the downfall of Hoffa a principal target of his considerable zeal for seven years. Now Bobby...
With summer approaching in the worse-than-tropical Jordan Valley 750 ft. below sea level, Dr. Pritchard went home to Philadelphia to plan next season's dig. He is sure that the Hill of the Sa'īd Women is entirely manmade, and he longs to get to the bottom of it. Perhaps when he has cut through city after city, he will turn up a neolithic village as old as Jericho on the other side of the Jordan, which now ranks as the oldest town on earth...
...legendary "treasure-trove" is in a class by itself. Originally limited to gold, silver and gems, it has been broadened by modern law to include paper money. An authentic treasure-trove must be buried beneath the earth by a person intending to come back and dig it up-Jean Lafitte, say, or Henry Morgan. If the original owner never reappears, the treasure belongs to the finder even if the cache is unearthed on someone else's property. If the treasure is dug up on federal land, the authorities take...
Then came the Jan. 9 Canal Zone riots, reviving with new urgency the need for alternative canal proposals. Of all the potential sites, five sea-level routes drew closest attention as the least expensive and easiest to dig. Each route has been studied for possible excavation by either conventional or nuclear methods. By using nuclear explosives (TIME, Jan. 31), the U.S. could build any one of them for only a fraction of the cost of a conventional canal...
...Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. Last January Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield proposed that the U.S. and Mexico join with other maritime nations in building the canal. But Mexico's initial reaction was cool. At that, a Tehuantepec canal would be the longest and most expensive to dig, costing $2.3 billion and requiring 815 nuclear explosives. The Nicaragua-Costa Rica route would cost less ($1.9 billion), but raises all sorts of political problems by crossing two countries. Another surveyed route, at the Atrato and Truando rivers of north west Colombia, could be excavated with 610 nuclear charges...