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...hope to inspire the hiring of other retired professors. The Whitney Foundation has a list of 350 scholars willing and able to return to work. All in all, says former Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman, chairman of the foundation's Division of Humanities, it is quite a reservoir-"which too often goes unused...
...state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through the rock to sluice the water down the west side of the mountains. Falling 2,600 ft.-15 times the height of Niagara Falls-the water spins huge turbines in Alcan's underground powerhouse...
Hooked. In Campbellton, N.B., after the town council asked the Mounties to crack down on illegal fishing in the reservoir, they shortly nabbed Campbellton's Police Committee Chairman Leonard...
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...
...have been circulated by people who themselves can never think of a pun until they are driving home after the party. The fact is that punsters have gone underground-at least as far as polite literature is concerned. Among the U.S. writers, there must be a vast reservoir of pent-up puns, just waiting for the signal to burst out into the open. That heady day may be at hand...