Word: aswan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found the Egyptians leary about letting him take aerial photographs of bridges, and the Russian technicians at the Aswan dam unwilling to speak to him. But he made his way through the Red tape, and won the cooperation of the Arabs. He took the opening picture in the color pages-a view of the Aswan cofferdam-with an F-8 Fairchild camera from a DC-3 owned by a United Arab Republic airline. With the door removed from the plane, Lowry stood in the open, a rope lashed around his waist and an chored to the tie-down rings...
...does not mention where she was born. In the Playbill for Wholesale, she said that she was born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon. It was easy enough to believe. After two martinis and an expense-account steak, Barbra's Pharaonic profile and scarab eyes suggest the Aswan High Dam, Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however, she was born and raised between Newtown Creek and the Gowanus Canal...
...temples and ten mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled on a higher location, where the waters will not reach them when the High Dam is completed in 1970 at Aswan, 180 miles downstream...
...firms also benefit from the self-interested way in which Bonn hands out foreign aid. Hochtief got a leg up for the big Abu Simbel project by winning a smaller, but highly important contract to move an ancient temple at Kalabsha that was also threatened with flooding from the Aswan dam. Hochtief won that contract last year after Bonn lent the Egyptians $1,500,000-on the condition that a German firm would...
...through Africa, the round of sightseeing clearly tired the ailing, 67-year-old Chou. For the first time, Westerners noticed that he has only partial use of his right arm, which was usually clutched tightly over his stomach. At one point, after climbing a flight of stairs at an Aswan power station, the ashen-faced Premier staggered off into a corner as if he were about to faint...