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...mess left by them. Last week the 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...
...asks in a quaint prose, "to deceive a trout with an artificial fly-a trout that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled falcon is bold?" Deceiving trout with worms is also an art, the author believes, and a sport, too. He recommends "lively, quick, stirring" earthworms fattened on cream and eggs...
...occasion of their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
Hollywood's real-estate news of the week: Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke signed papers to buy the massive hilltop villa Falcon's Lair, onetime home of the late Rudolph Valentino...
Charlie Ufford, defending champion, drew a first-round bye and easily disposed of Wesleyan's Bill Falcon in the second. His scores...