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...Sidonie was a charming little chatte with long chestnut braids that got tangled with her toes while she slept and made her dream of snakes. One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret. "Put down what you remember of your board-school days," he instructed her bluntly. "Don't be shy of the spicy bits. Money's short...
...Wallaby damned! Next time some anteloper is Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know ahead. I roared so, the cubs in our pride were all apeset. Father said: "How horribull, she's been pythoned! Alligator a drink-you kids call the dogtor and giraffter that go bison aspirin. We'll keep her lion down hunter the table and cassowary ibis on the rest of TIME." That'll rabbit...
...private power companies. The three-judge court upheld a 1964 Federal Power Commission decision licensing Pacific Northwest Power Co., a consortium of four private power firms, to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam and a generating plant at Mountain Sheep, in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. The court unanimously rejected the challenge of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which wanted to erect a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep...
Prior Rights. The victory for private power stemmed from the court's finding that the private combine had first claim to harness that sector of the turbulent Snake by virtue of its 1955 FPC permit to investigate the possibilities of two smaller dams near by. Held the court: it "would be manifestly unfair" to a private company that "has expended large sums over a long period, if a state or municipality could step in and reap the fruit of its labors by obtaining a license merely because of the [Power Act] preference...
...case. Said the court: "The Secretary of the Interior was more than once specifically invited to participate in the proceedings, but for about two years he did nothing." The court swept aside Udall's contention that the FPC had no right to allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That, ruled the court, "would mean that the existence of one federal dam in a waterway would require that any future dams therein be federally constructed. There is no such...