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...manner on which modern engineers can hardly improve. In the upper part of the Siq, before it reaches the city, they built a stone dam 45 ft. high and 140 ft. long. The dam was not designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile long cut through a sandstone ridge. The water was finally discharged into the comparatively broad Wadi Mataha and Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), where it would do no damage...
...serious of unsuccessful coups, however, could divert effort and attention entirely away from the war against the Vietcong, argue those in the U.S. government who oppose the removal of Diem. They also argue that it might be impossible to find a successor able to unite the country in the fight against the Vietcong. This argument unintentionally constitutes a strong case against any American military commitments in South Vietnam, for it says that the people there are not determined to eradicate the Vietcong. If this is true, the United States will soon be the main opponent of the insurgents. Already...
...Malaya to the northern islands of the Philippines. Moreover, he is doubtless embarrassed by the contrast between Malaysia's economic well-being and Indonesia's own chaotic economy, which Sukarno has sadly mismanaged. A nationalistic crusade against Malaysia gives Sukarno a badly needed issue to divert his people's attention from the desperate shortages in food and clothing at home...
Last week, in prime evening time, NBC bravely sent Mr. Novak to war against ABC's Combat, and CBS's Marshal Dillon on the theory that he can divert millions of viewers from shooting to scholarship. His "Jefferson High," founded at MGM's Culver City studios, is based on research at 50 live high schools. In real life Novak is Actor James Franciscus, 29, onetime flatfoot on Naked City. He went to Taft and Yale and never attended a public school, but he is handsomer than TV Hardin and can speak real English out of both sides...
While six Ivy schools divert themselves with non-League foes, Brown and Columbia face each other today. The game for some time was expected to be a rather important meeting between Archie Roberts of the Lions and Brown's Jim Dunda. Since Dunda was injured in pre-season drills and will only see partial action today, the game will probably be boring. Columbia will win it, by at least two touchdowns...