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Senators never felt grander. The Congress decided what industries to protect with tariffs, what railroads to build, what public works to undertake. They chose, or thought they chose, Presidents. And they were hawks: the Senate had more than its share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some time before, a young scholar named Woodrow Wilson had written mournfully: "The President may tire the Senate by dogged persistence, but he can never deal with it upon a ground of real equality. His power does not extend beyond the most general suggestion. The Senate always has the last word...
Compared to the Mississippi or the Missouri, the 306-mile-long Hudson is a whippersnapper waterway. Nonetheless, there is not a river on the continent that surpasses it in natural beauty; the great Karl Baedeker called its vistas "grander and more inspiring" than the Rhine's. Nor has any other American stream earned so rich a place in the nation's history, art and folklore. Yet the Shatemuc, "the water that flows both ways," as the Algonquin Indians called it, today is the most wantonly abused river in the U.S., its banks in many places a riparian slum...
Beyond the immediate value of the burgeoning U.S. presence in Thailand lies a grander purpose. "We're trying to apply the lessons of Viet Nam to Thailand early in the game," says a top American military official. By laying a sound infrastructure of ports, highways and airstrips, bottlenecks like that currently plaguing the American buildup in Viet Nam are not likely to develop. When the bases and roads are completed, entire U.S. divisions could be airlifted into Thailand in a day's time from American bases in the Pacific or from the U.S. itself...
...grander scale, the Los Angeles engineering firm of Ralph M. Parsons Co. has proposed a scheme to tap the vast water reserves of northern Canadian rivers. Called NAWAPA, for North American Water and Power Alliance, the project would channel the waters to the Canadian prairies, 33 U.S. states, and three states of northern Mexico, opening up in Mexico alone eight times as much irrigated land as in the Aswan Dam region. But NAWAPA would cost $60 billion to $100 billion and take more than 30 years to complete...
...eight, a total of 642 man-hours in space to the Russians' 507, 120 revolutions on a single trip to the Russians' 81. Gemini 5 was a crucial stage in the buildup for man's journey beyond the earth orbit. With each mission, the goals became grander. Gemini 6, scheduled as a two-day flight to go up Oct. 25, will attempt to rendezvous and dock with an Agena rocket in orbit. Next year's Gemini 7 aims to go for 14 days -the maximum amount of time required for a lunar round trip and landing...