Word: valley
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Last November, when Republican John Phillips announced that he would give up his seat in Congress as the Representative of California's 2gth District (the Imperial and Coachella Valleys and surrounding wasteland), Jackie instantly tossed her Lilly Dache bonnet in the ring (TIME, Nov. 14). It was no feminine caprice: Jackie Cochran has long had a hankering to go to Congress, and, unlike many of the big landowners in the Imperial Valley (40% of the land is held by absentee owners), she has spent a great deal of the past 20 years personally operating the 600-acre Odium ranch...
Flood control is vital in California, where the nightmare is water-too much in the rainy north, too little in the arid south. Key to California's burgeoning economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley and the water-starved cities of the booming south. But no flood-control program is watertight, and California's is far from complete. Last week, in the wake of northern floods that cost $170 million and 74 lives, Californians were grateful for the dams they have, but bitterly regretted...
...infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
After 700 years in the dark ages, the ancient land where agriculture dawned and civilization first lit the planet is stirring again. Sudden wealth has been thrust upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq...
...Valley. Unlike the rulers of neighboring Saudi Arabia (TIME, Dec. 19), Nuri believes that Iraq's oil wealth should be used for the advancement of its people rather than the enrichment of its. royal princes. As Premier, he presides over a ten-man, nonpolitical National Development Board that by law gets 70% of state oil revenues, and spends the money ($204 million in 1955) on a vast plan to recreate in the Valley of the Two Rivers the sort of terrestrial paradise that existed there before the marauding Mongols under Hulagu Khan wrecked its irrigation system...