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...below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption in the U.S. by 1980 (v. 221 billion in 1955), has gone far in developing cheap desalting methods. Some of its pilot plants are producing desalted water...
...actuality, the composition of the Security Council had little or nothing to do with Khrushchev's climb-down (see below). But to lend a note of conviction to his complaints-and to save what diplomatic face he could-Nikita suggested a substitute for a Security Council summit: an extraordinary session of the General Assembly "to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon and British troops from Jordan...
...seat-miles that the speed and greater capacity of the new jets will make available by 1962. The report's conclusion: The airlines will not be able to unless they get busy right away researching new markets and developing special programs to attract new passengers. The Government can lend a hand in assisting traffic growth, said the report, by repealing the transportation tax and turning over to commercial carriers more of the passenger and cargo traffic now carried by the Military Air Transport Service...
Last week Williams resigned, bounced off to lend Bodenhamer the full measure of his private talents...
Unwilling to lend himself to propaganda circuses. De Gaulle had no enthusiasm for participating in a TV spectacular in Manhattan. He said that a summit meeting must be prepared with care, which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations...