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IRAQ has a long-range plan to restore the Biblical green of the Tigris-Euphrates, if only its restless people and its turbulent politicos will wait for its fruition. By turning the Wadi Tharthar (dry river bed) into a reservoir to sequester the Tigris-Euphrates overflow in floodtime, the annual drought-flood cycle will be controlled and Iraq's irrigated area doubled. It is being financed out of the country's oil royalties ($140 million last year...
...Lewis at the tavern: "We're ordering six bottles of vodka and practicing pouring it into tiny glasses until they almost overflow. We hear that's Russian style." Said Mrs. Pearce: "I'm installing...
...noon. At the county courthouse a television set was set up in a domestic-relations-court office and the shades were drawn. Out at Tellico Plains, Mayor Charles Hall put a set in a storage room next to his furniture store, lined up boxes, benches and chairs, drew an overflow crowd...
...surgeons are reaching the limit of their endurance, and the overflow of wounded are waiting on the ground for their dressings to be changed. The water of the river in which bodies float can be filtered only in eyedropperfuls. There is just about enough water to give the men when they get delirious from thirst...
...Thanks to new splash gutters and overflow pipes, which carry off pool-edge turbulence...