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...River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
...summer White House in Denver announced that President Eisenhower and Mexico's cleanup President will meet at the international border Oct. 19. The occasion: dedication of the largest joint U.S.-Mexican border undertaking on record-the $50,000,000 Falcon Dam across the Rio Grande River 75 miles downstream from Laredo, Texas...
...Grande's basic trouble is a prolonged, three-year drought along its vast watershed, on the east side of the Rockies. Lower valley residents,unable to do much about the weather, angrily blamed upstream dams and irrigation pumpers. Downstream pumping for irrigation has been rationed for 15 months; the crops, livelihood of 670,000 Texans and Mexicans, are fast withering away. This week upstream farmers agreed to cut down on pumping, and a thin trickle of water appeared at Laredo. But it didn't change things much. "The valley," says Brownsville Judge Oscar Dancy, "has its back...
...heat, somebody discovered that no flag had been provided to mark the finish. By some feverish activity with a penknife and a hammer a suitable flag was hurried together from a piece of canvas and a lath. And when the tide changed, the judges' barge itself began to drift downstream, so that between races the pile of crates which constituted the judges' stand had to be moved bodily from one end of the barge to the other...
...vessel, and set off down the River Weser with the tightly lashed tugboat still bumping at her side. At a sharp bend in the channel, the Raman neatly dropped anchor in the darkness, pirouetted about the anchor chain, then hoisted anchor and headed for the open sea, 50 miles downstream. The five crewmen scrambled up from the tugboat and cut it adrift. Belching black smoke, the Raman gathered speed while her captain, Rifat Onder, turned a cold. Nelson-like eye to every signal to halt. From the docks a police message flashed to Bremerhaven at the Weser's mouth...