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...million to $50 million off Delaware's coast to help supply Philadelphia area. Submarine line will extend four to five miles to deep water, enable supertankers to discharge oil offshore, pipe it into Delaware storage tanks before pumping it to Philadelphia area, eliminating tricky voyage through shallow Delaware River...
...with, of all things, an improvement in reading standards. Said Greenaway: "Everybody can see mysteries, westerns and love stories on television, so when they come to the library, they ask for more serious books." Result: the library now spends more of its book-buying budget on classics, less on shallow stuff. TV, he says, has also stimulated a reading interest in famous plays, and even the quiz shows have done their bit. Thanks largely to their incentive for boning up on the answers, Greenaway maintains, the circulation of nonfiction has more than doubled in ten years...
...Spina declined in late Roman times to a village; then it disappeared. Cemeteries believed to be connected with it were found and recently excavated by both thieves and archaeologists (TIME, Nov. 8, 1954), but the remains of the city itself lay obstinately hidden under the flats and shallow lagoons of the advancing delta. Some skeptics maintained that Spina has always been only a myth, rather than a real city...
...which all oil calculations depend is: How soon will the Suez Canal be open again? By last week the first optimistic predictions of three months' work had turned to talk of six months' or more. Once the work is under way, salvage experts hope to clear a shallow channel for ships of 25-ft. draft in a few weeks. Then tankers plying the cape route to Europe from the Persian Gulf could take a short cut through Suez on the empty return trip, cut their time by 25% and costs proportionately...
...centuries-old trend was unaccountably reversed. The lake began to rise rapidly, spilling over into the mud flats and inundating the clay-and-sand islands that dotted its shallows. The rising water level created its own hazards. Grazing lands were flooded, and immense expanses of papyrus set adrift. In the course of one howling storm, 16 Kotoko fishermen in a four-boat flotilla were driven into a field of floating papyrus and held captive by the sinewy stems. The crew of one boat managed to cut their way out of the papyrus jungle when they drifted into shallow water...