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High & Dry. Duisburg's troubles began with the river Rhine. The city's commerce flows through its Rhine harbor, which is ringed with steel mills and swarms with barge traffic. Years ago, the river started falling. Dredging and straightening of the channel downstream had made the water flow faster, and the quickened flow lowered the river's level. It also eroded the river bed, which lowered the water level still more. Duisburg's vital harbor got shallower and shallower. Dredging the harbor to keep pace with the fall of the river would have narrowed its sloping...
...shows have gone downstream this spring in large numbers, but the new ones that will replace them next season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks...
Before the varsity four-mile main event the freshmen will row a two-mile downstream race, and the junior varsity will follow with a three mile test. On Friday a race between the reserves of both squads will be held on a two mile course...
...magnificence, the Temple of Abu Simbel is apparently doomed. For lack of $22 million, the cost of a few bombers or missiles, it will soon be submerged under 200 ft. of muddy water backed up by the High Dam being built at Aswan 180 miles downstream...
Until recently, the only link over the canal has been a cumbersome swing bridge at the Pacific end. In response to Panama's urging, the U.S. spent $20 million on a new bridge rising 384 ft. above the canal three miles downstream. The question was what to call it. At a time when Washington is increasingly mindful of Panama's "titular sovereignty," and now flies the Panamanian flag next to the Stars and Stripes in the zone, one name that almost everybody liked was "Bridge of the Americas"-symbolizing Panama's importance as a crossroads...