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Suddenly Lady Bird spotted photographers on another raft waiting downstream to shoot more pictures. "O.K.," she sighed. "Pass me my lipstick." Now she was Lyndon Johnson's wife again. The First Lady Bird put on a chipper smile, and the cameras went click...
...first place? For a while, PHS blamed the Velsicol Chemical Corp., which manufactures endrin at Memphis. But the company had a ready reply. "If our endrin got into the river," asked a Velsicol official, "why weren't thousands of fish killed around our plant, instead of 770 miles downstream?" PHS answered that the doomed catfish probably got poisoned near Memphis and swam to the river's mouth before they died-a theory that hardly accounts for the fact that the catfish analyzed are not migratory species and do not commute to salt water...
...mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled on a higher location, where the waters will not reach them when the High Dam is completed in 1970 at Aswan, 180 miles downstream...
...land vanished, Nubian men sought work in the cities, where their proverbial honesty and fanatical cleanliness won them jobs. Now, at the rate of 300 a day, the remaining Nubians are being moved downstream from their villages to the Kom Ombo area, some 40 miles north of Aswan...
...reports started by drunken demolition workers who had wandered into nearby bars to celebrate. After three days, the demolition site was aswarm with FBI agents and police, combing the debris for glitter. They pumped water out of the basement of the abandoned building, screening the water for baubles, while downstream, eager laborers panned for gold. They picked and they plucked and they poked. After persistent questioning, some of the demolition workers began talking, and five men were arrested. Nearly all of the loot was recovered...