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Until the mid-1950s, the Charles was also a playground for swimmers, in addition to rowers, sailors, and the occasional drunk student who took a dive off the Weeks Footbridge. But swimming has been banned since tests in 1955 showed the water was no longer safe for people...
...idea for a World Heritage List was hatched in the late 1950s, when the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt were being threatened by a small dam. Frustrated by the Egyptian government's lack of action to protect the ancient buildings, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), launched a worldwide campaign that saved the temples by relocating them to higher ground. Today, the process is a good deal more official than that - almost like the Oscars of the environment. Any country is eligible to send in a list of nominees for protection. The candidates are then independently...
BORN TO WEALTHY PARENTS, Vilma Espín, Cuba's unofficial First Lady, could have chosen a quiet life of opulence. Instead, the MIT-educated chemical engineer shouldered rifles, donned combat fatigues and joined Cuba's 1950s revolution alongside her husband Raúl. A powerful member of Cuba's Communist Party, she accom-panied her divorced brother-in-law Fidel Castro to events and, as longtime president of the Federation of Cuban Women, became a respected voice for women's rights...
...LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault chose Ferre to be the artistic director of Christian Dior, replacing Marc Bohan who had been at the helm of the house for 30 years. Commuting between Milan and Paris, Ferre reinvented the iconic French label?s signatures, including the voluminous floral ballgown, the 1950s-style suit, and the strict evening column - with his own sense of drama and proportion. A private man, Ferre was known for his fantastic sense of humor and his love of travel and architecture...
...stock-car races on the beach. After the war, France, 6 ft. 5 in. and with a booming voice, decided to bring order to a ragtag racing scene that sometimes saw promoters skip town without paying the drivers. He founded NASCAR in 1948, built the Daytona superspeedway in the 1950s, banished all dirt tracks from the circuit in 1970 (thus assuring more vroooom) and then handed the operation...