Word: mediterraneans
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...glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome have been pretty well picked over on dry land. But under the surface of the Mediterranean, says Archeologist Philippe Diolé, lie untold sunken deposits of classical history and art. In a new book, 4,000 Years Under the Sea (Messner; $4.50), Diolé tells how diving archeologists are just beginning to exploit the submarine digging grounds...
...staff is Bob Christopher, who learned Japanese as a World War II intelligence officer. On previous assignments, Bureau Chief Bob Neville picked up some Hindustani and Chinese (to top off his childhood Oklahoma Cherokee vocabulary), learned Italian when he was World War II boss of Stars & Stripes's Mediterranean edition. Dean Brelis came to Rome equipped with Greek and fluent Kachin, a language which he learned in two years with Kachin tribesmen while operating behind the Japanese lines with an OSS detachment in Burma...
President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil. Smaller than Connecticut, the republic at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is so densely populated (1,250,000) that a nearly equal number have moved out and now live abroad. Some 500,000 are in the U.S., many in Brooklyn. Explained a Foreign Office official in Beirut: "Our people have been traders since the dawn of history, and they can sniff a business opportunity a long way off." Some Lebanese opportunity-sniffers in Brazil have been strikingly successful...
...through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...
...evaporation at a rate of more than 12 ft. a year. After the sea had sunk 50 ft., the water of the Indian Ocean, flowing into it through turbines, would generate as much electricity per day as 200,000 tons of coal. The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level would fall 330 ft., exposing 90,000 square miles of new land. Inflow from the Atlantic could then generate power, but other effects might be even more interesting. Ley thinks that the cold water that now flows...