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...reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National Monument) and Southern California power interests (who profit under the present distribution of the Colorado's water...
...world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...
...rearing horses showered about him. Pale but resolute, Mollet went up the steps through the barrage to the war memorial, and laid there a wreath honoring Algiers' war veterans. Even as the Spahis cleared a path for him back to his car, the demonstrators swarmed upon the monument, tore his wreath to shreds...
Last week bigwig psychiatrists from across the U.S. converged on Ann Arbor to help dedicate a monument to the proposition that more can and must be done for such children: the Children's Psychiatric Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. Though the six-story, yellow brick building was barely finished, 30-odd children from the ages of six to twelve had been moved in. The unit's capacity: 75. That is sizable for a children's mental hospital, though many thousands of children in the U.S. need psychiatric hospital care...
...with her three ex-mates. She is working on a movie (Death of a Scoundrel) with Sanders, and "he phones me all the time." As for the other two: "Connie Hilton built that hotel of his in Istanbul because of my suggestion. So at least Turkey has a monument of my affection for their Senator...