One of the most notable reporting trips by an ENR editor took place in 1962 when ENR Editor-in-Chief Waldo G. Bowman attended the 29th Executive Meeting of the International Commission on Large Dams—held in Moscow—as a member of the U.S. delegation.
The west abutment of a dam near Mankato, Minn., was washed away, as was a portion of a railroad bridge between Sioux City, Iowa, and North Sioux City, S.D.