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...eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took the burden of responsibility on himself, saved De Lesseps from the ignominy of jail. But 25 years later the Panama Canal became a reality...
...carries in that troubled area while the President talks softly; it is the Middle East's steel-grey stabilizer, a powerful force of aircraft carriers and atom-armed planes, missile ships, cruisers, destroyers and a Marine amphibious unit that unobtrusively patrols-and controls-that ancient and vital waterway, the Mediterranean...
...INLAND WATERWAYS in U.S. are carrying 20% more traffic this year than 1955's record 867 million tons. Business is up 20% on Tennessee River, 15% on lower Mississippi and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (TIME COLOR PAGES, Oct. 1). Total U.S. waterborne traffic-including imports and exports, coastal, lake, inland waterways-topped 1 billion tons last year for first time in history...
...believe your views on the Middle East to be unrealistic and even naive. The intervention in the canal could have been handled better, but surely the petrol rationing that is taking place here and in Europe should convince even the most starry-eyed idealist that this waterway will be vital to Europe for at least the next ten years. It can never remain at the mercy of Nasser or any other purely national figure...
...Egypt's Suez Canal, which channels 1,200,000 bbls. daily to Europe from Persian Gulf fields, has been completely closed. The hulks of at least 15 vessels (including the dredges and some of the biggest salvage ships), most of them scuttled by the Egyptians, clog the waterway. The El Firdan railway bridge also has collapsed into the canal. Most optimistic estimate for clearing the canal: more than a month. Says one shipping expert: "It all depends on who is going to do the unplugging. If it's a crash program under the Americans, it might take...