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Treasure House. Ike's powerful support was thereby given to a plan which has been talked about for some 50 years and has been passed over by four previous Congresses, largely because of unrelenting opposition from 1) Southern California power interests who profit under the present distribution of Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument...
...Ukraine, traditional Soviet "breadbasket," severe drought has raised the specter of famine, and increased peasant resistance to government collection of grain. Previous failures to control the peasants in this area (e.g., in the Dearly '30s, when farmers slaughtered millions of head of cattle when forced to collectivize, and in 1950, when they burned haystacks as a protest against new regimentation) led Khrushchev last year to undertake a vast switch in Soviet agricultural effort: to grow wheat on some 100 million acres of marginal and semidesert land in Siberia. Tens of thousands of young party workers and more than half...
Elsewhere, the economy showed its strength. Freight-car loadings, a traditional bellwether, climbed to 644,940 v. 602,203 for the previous week. Steel production moved up to 83.2% of capacity and the demand was still firm, still rising...
...Crimson took the foil and sabre contests by identical 6-3 scores, but lost the epee, 2 to 4. Peter Boyce, the only Crimson fencer with previous experience, won all three of his foil matches, while Doug Runnels, David Silbert and Arthur Steinberg each took two out of their three sabre contests, and Phil Holcomb did well in the epee...
...American Council on Education is drafting the bill, but has not decided who will sponsor it in Congress. Ten bills for similar purposes were presented in the last session of Congress, but backers of the bill claim that the previous bills were too badly organized to succeed...