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...Newspaper Syndicate of Chicago, is not at all concerned about finding a successor for him. Tucked away in N.N.S. files is half a century's worth of Brady columns that, because of their basic approach to medicine, are not likely to go out of style. By tapping this reservoir, N.N.S. can keep Dr. Brady somersaulting in print for countless years after his death-and intends doing...
...wants to create a reservoir about 40 miles north of New York City by building a series of dikes around a natural basin near the Hudson River. It plans to pump water from the river into the reservoir during periods of low electrical demand and then allow it to flow back into the river when demand is high. On its way down, the water would drive large electric generators...
...University's 3700-acre forest, which the reservoir would partially submerge, was given to it in 1949 by Ernest G. Stillman '08. The land is used for research in silviculture and conservation...
...great crescent stretching 10,000 miles from Iran to Japan live more than a fourth of the world's 3.1 billion people. This is non-Communist Asia, whose vast size and vaster human reservoir make its bitter struggle for a better life of particular concern to all nations. Last week a new report from the United Nations showed just how hard that struggle is - and how far most of the 22 Asian nations in the survey must go before reaching even the most preliminary goals...
...canals to bring in more than 1,350,000 tons of water a day from nearby rivers, expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon god," the priest explained...