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...that Germany declared war on France, Aug. 3, 1914, was also the day that the first ocean-going ship-the cement carrier Cristobal-passed through the newly built Panama Canal. The coincidence provides one of those Janus dates of history: the canal reflecting the 19th century's unambiguous energies, organizational drive and technological genius, and World War I inaugurating a century in which those forces would...
Over by a bank of iris flowers a couple were engrossed in Bacardi and cokes and each other. The man wore a panama hat, the woman a ruffled sundress. "I bet they're being filmed," Strauss ventured...
...would probably take something as unlikely as a Cuban attack on the Panama Canal to prevent what now seems almost inevitable: restoration of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana. In recent weeks the Administration has lifted travel restrictions for Americans who wish to visit Cuba and begun bilateral talks with Havana on a new fishing agreement-necessary since both countries claim 200-mile offshore limits, but are only 90 miles apart. One plan currently under consideration by Washington is to set up an American-staffed "interest" section attached to the Swiss Embassy in Havana, which now represents...
...bureau's senior partner in building water-control projects is the Army Corps of Engineers. While also serving as a regular branch of the Army, the engineers have constructed 4,000 projects during the past 152 years. They tamed the Mississippi River, dug the Panama Canal, erected the secret installations that produced the atomic bomb, and along the way earned the wrath of legions of environmentalists...
...budgeted at $323 million. As plans stand, Tenn-Tom, now priced at $1.6 billion, will require the construction of six dams and eleven locks, digging a 27-mile channel through the foothills of the Tennessee ridge and moving more earth than did the construction of the Panama Canal...