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Five miles above the quiet Riviera town of Fréjus (see map), French engineers five years ago built Malpasset Dam. A graceful, sweeping arc of concrete 738 ft. long and 197 ft. high, it backed the Reyran River into a lake six miles long and two miles wide. Only 22½ ft. thick at its base and 5 ft. at the top, the Malpasset was, French technicians boasted on its completion, the world's thinnest major dam. It was to prove an unhappy boast...
...Western Europe in August. He will stop off in Rome to reassure Italy's Premier Antonio Segni that Italy, though not included in the Western summit, is not forgotten. He will also talk with Pope John XXIII. Thence via Turkey, Pakistan and Soviet-influenced Afghanistan (see map) the President will fly into New Delhi for five days of talks with Nehru and his advisers, for the opening of the U.S. exhibit, and a "very major" foreign policy speech (also for some sightseeing, including Agra's matchless Taj Mahal...
...Boston doesn't have an opera house, at least it once again has a resident opera company of some merit. With an expanded season and improved musical performances, Operation Opera may become a significant new addition to the sparsely covered American operatic map...
...style may be described as a kind of loving criticism," he says. The criticisms are sometimes wrapped in flattery, as when he paints a gauzy profile of the Duchess of Windsor without those wrinkles that are the map of earned character. But Truman Capote he sees devastatingly as a lounging, feline figure, with a prim mouth and enormous cold spectacles. Elsa Maxwell becomes, in a spectacularly strong and concise portrait, a court dwarf out of Velasquez. Says Bouché: "A court jester, but also a desperately serious woman who considers herself a serious critic of society...
...Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss of the surviving N. & W. could hail as a milestone. Said Saunders: "A great day in the history of the railroad industry. It reflects...