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...destructive activities of that all-purpose villain, man, are not wholly irreversible. A decade ago, Oregon's Willamette River was the most polluted waterway in the Pacific Northwest. Even scavenging fish could not survive its toxic atmosphere. After a concerted drive by environ mentalists, government officials and just plain anglers, the river has become so pure that the delicate trout and salmon can be found throughout its reaches...
...week, Egypt could look forward for the first time in 6½ years to regaining full control-by March 5-of its canal. Blockaded and unused except as a bitter point of confrontation since the June 1967 war, the channel had previously served for 98 years as a crucial waterway between continents, a ribbon of commerce along which East met West. Indeed, its completion in 1869 was deemed such a historic occasion for Western Europe's mercantile ambitions that elaborate dedication ceremonies were attended by 6,000 foreign guests, including numerous monarchs. The principal cities along the 107-mile...
Beyond restoring the canal to its pre-June 1967 condition, Egypt faces a billion-dollar decision: whether or not to widen and deepen the waterway to accommodate the new larger ships, including some supertankers. The canal now can handle ships with a maximum draft of 38 ft.-70,000-ton craft carrying full loads of cargo and 140,000-tonners riding empty. An enlarged canal could take fully loaded ships with a draft of 71 ft. and a weight of 260,000 tons, or any ship now afloat empty...
...west bank. Such an arrangement would leave the Egyptians proudly in Sinai and at the same time provide the Israelis with the security necessary to defend their cities. More than that, the agreement would allow Egypt to dredge and reopen the Suez Canal as a working commercial waterway-the best security...
...eyed fellow Oklahoman who had twice broken the round-the-world speed record. On Aug. 15, 1935, the two were in Alaska on the first leg of a journey to, of all places, Siberia. They crashed taking off in a nose-heavy plane from a small, landlocked waterway known as the Walakpa Lagoon. The bodies were found by Eskimos, and a world went into mourning. Why? Because the years from World War I to the Great Depression were times for tears. Will Rogers often diluted them with laughter. His contemporary jokes have not worn perfectly, but they have worn welland...