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...Volga Boatwomen, kiddies, it's only the Radcliffe crew, lending its charms to the historic Charles as it rounds itself into shape for a coming season of crab catching. Whether or not the 'Cliffe dwellers will challenge the Bollesmen is a matter of conjecture but in view of the fact that last year's feminine galley slaves left the Crimson in their wake means, possibly, that a challenge is in the offing...
William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
TIME, Jan. 28, describes a "staggeringly complex" and "technically audacious" scheme of the Russians, the Greater Volga Project, to raise the level of ancient seas and reverse the flow of rivers...
...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
...only outlet-the sky-the Caspian annually gives in evaporation about 410 billion cubic meters of water. From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...