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...shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche...
...happens that I have a nephew who is attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," thundered Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack in the U.S. House of Representatives last fortnight. "Not so long ago, a federal judge in Boston threatened him with contempt of court. Well, anyone who declares war on the McCormacks ought to know that a McCormack is always ready to join the issue-and the war is on until peace terms have been offered by the one who declared the war." No sooner had McCormack sat down than Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...days after he had approved the invasion, President Kennedy tried to assure the world that the U.S. would not actively associate itself with any such enterprise. Said he at his press conference a fortnight ago: "There will not be, under any conditions, an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." Apart from the damage it did to the morale of anti-Castro Cubans, the President's absolute promise acted last week as a barrier against effective action during the critical hours...
Another public art project, was put on view a fortnight ago with the dedication of a 32-ft.-long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway...
Even Verwoerd's own National Party supporters are having their doubts. Cape Town's Nationalist newspaper. Die Burger, has recently veered away from Verwoerd's extremism, argues that coloreds should be represented in Parliament by coloreds. The party's paper in Johannesburg, Die Transvaler, warned fortnight ago that South Africa must change its views about racial questions "or prepare for catastrophe...