Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pastel and pillarless, the new Garden itself was part of the attraction. When it first opened, New York newspapers sniped at its imperfections: a few (approximately 1,500 out of 20,500) seats with bad sight lines for hockey and track, water leaking from the ceiling, a nonfunctioning electric Scoreboard and clock. Even so, its problems were nothing compared with those at the new Philadelphia Spectrum, where the roof blew off, or the Inglewood Forum, which boasts southern California's most awesome traffic jam in its parking lot. By fight night, most of the Garden's problems...
Tarbela will be the major link in a $2 billion project to provide hydroelectric power and irrigation water for 50 million people and 33 million acres of land in West Pakistan. A second dam, the Mangla, 40 miles away on the Jhelum River, was completed last year, twelve months ahead of schedule, by U.S. contractors. The two big dams, plus smaller barrage dams and 40,000 miles of large and small canals, will interconnect five rivers flowing through West Pakistan to provide one of the world's best-developed irrigation systems. In addition, Tarbela and Mangla together will ultimately...
...Tarbela's 9,000-ft.-long, 470-ft-high main embankment, nearly as much earth will have to be shifted as was excavated for the Panama Canal. Four half-mile-long tunnels, each 45 ft. in diameter, must be dug through the rock of surrounding mountains to bring water into the electric generators and irrigation releases. Eventually a 50-mile reservoir will form behind the dam to provide water for crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season-that the reservoir will...
...Pakistan, the Indus Basin project represents something more than national prestige. Until British India was partitioned into two nations, the area of West Pakistan served bv the dams got its water from rivers whose headwaters are now in unfriendly India. India will be free to cut off Pakistan's flow of water from the east in 1970 and use it for Indian purposes. Developing a whole new water system along the Indus, Pakistan must therefore have much of it ready by 1970, and is gladly paying bonuses to contractors who complete their portions ahead of schedule...
Saltonstall & Co. sailed for England on a British steamer "The Olympic." They were greeted with amusement by the natives. "We had brought our own water supply," remembers Saltonstall, "as we heard that it took ten days to get acclimated to the change, and we only planned to stay four...