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Morning News, which rails against the St. Lawrence Seaway as a socialistic boondoggle-and then pleads for federal help to build a 294-mile Trinity River Canal to make Dallas a seaport. Somehow Dallas manages to reduce most public issues to a simple question: Is it pro- or antiCommunist...
...counterpoint to all this is played by Chicago's economic activity. Its geography, from the city's birth, made Chicago a key factor in trade. As rail lines marked it like tracer bullets, it became a Goliath, took on even more muscle when the St. Lawrence Seaway opened still another economic channel...
...this will change. Under way in the Arkansas basin is one of the most costly river-development programs in U.S. history. To be completed in 1970, the project will spend $1.2 billion (against $1 billion for the St. Lawrence Seaway) to create a navigable channel 9 ft. deep with a width of 150-250 ft. all the way from the Mississippi 516 miles west to the town of Catoosa, Okla...
...foresight of Teddy Roosevelt gave the Republic of Panama its No. 1 asset-the Panama Canal. Under a historic treaty, signed in 1903 and renegotiated in 1955, the U.S., which has spent more than $1.5 billion to build and improve the canal, retains control over the vital Atlantic-Pacific seaway "in perpetuity." This point has long galled the nationalistic Panamanians and has touched off anti-American riots throughout Panama...
...Miriani is facing serious opposition in Detroit's nonpartisan mayoralty race. His opponent: Lawyer Jerry Cavanagh, 33, who describes Miriani as a ''ceremonial figurehead who presides over the abandonment of the city." Cavanagh talks of attracting new industry, capturing a bigger slice of the St. Lawrence Seaway trade, and, if need be, leveling an income tax on anyone-including suburbanites-who makes money in Detroit...