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...stages planned: 1) the blasting out of a mile-long channel to detour the Nile around the main dam; at one point the channel will go underground through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of a power station; 2 ) the construction of an upstream cofferdam to steer the Nile into its new bed. and of a second cofferdam downstream so that the river will not seep back into the dam site after its detour; 3) the building of the main dam itself, which cannot begin until the channel is cut and cofferdams are in place, supposedly...
...second straight year, Wilcox said, he made a serious effort to steer certain students away from accepting sophomore standing. Those that he advised to begin as freshmen were students who were completely undecided about their field of concentration, or students who wanted to major in a field for which they had received no A.P. credit...
...chamber by the army, the Deputies assembled on rows of wicker chairs in El-Azm's rambling Damascus mansion, voted to restore the liberal 1950 constitution with a few amendments. Their 156-10-1 choice for Premier was big (6 ft.), bespectacled El-Azm. Convinced that Parliament would steer an even course, the army quietly assented to the changes...
...ordered her 90-ft. aluminum mast stepped forward 19 in. Her rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...
Wide World of Sports (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bareback riding, broncobusting, calf roping, steer wrestling, etc., at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo...