TVA Acts To Halt Rampaging Rivers
In Knoxville TVA staff fight to control floods along the Tennessee River system. Alfred Cooper and team use rainfall data, reservoir levels, and dam controls to reduce flood risk from Paducah to the Ohio, aiming to prevent losses and manage the crest behind dams. The process relies on rapid data gathering, computer calculations, and coordinated dam releases across nine main streams and five major tributaries.
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Tennessee River
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Earth scientists meet for peep at the deep in Houston
About 4000 petroleum geologists and related experts gather in Houston for a four day convention titled Peep at the Deep. The session focuses on offshore exploration and deeper basins while reviewing trends in drilling, regulation, and long range Mohole plans.
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Houston
McQueen
Automation Displacing Jobs Now
HAL BOYLE surveys automation's impact noting job displacement alongside new roles. He cites projected U.S. workforce growth from 74 million in 1960 to 87 million in 1970, with teens and older workers lagging behind skill shifts. The column compiles a string of curious facts, quotes, and tidbits reflecting midcentury American life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
U.S
Edward Bellamy
Theodore Roosevelt
New Mexico
Cincinnati
Wayne
Latvia
Germany
Arnold TH
Glasgow
Cornell University
Will Rogers
Negroes Picked For Naval Posts
Washington AP reports the Navy has selected its first Black officers to attend the Naval War College. Cmdr Samuel L Gravely Jr of Richmond Virginia and Lt Cmdr George J Thompson of Los Angeles are named for fall classes. Gravely, the highest ranking Black in the Regular Navy, previously became the first of his race to graduate from a midshipman school. Gravely will join the senior command and staff course among 135 officers.
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Samuel L. Gravely Jr
Richmond
George J. Thompson
Los Angeles
Gravely
Navy
War College
Newport
Rinore
Thompson
I Command and Staff
Launchings End Space Plan Lull At Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral prepares for a Thursday doubleheader with Saturn I and Explorer 17 launch attempts, aiming to end a lull in the U.S. space program. Saturn I tests continue a sequence of engine checks while Explorer 17 carries atmospheric science gear to altitudes up to 580 miles, amid prior delays and ongoing 1963 program predictions.
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Earth
Mariner 2
Venus
Telstar
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Pioneer
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