Word: aswan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nile will start rising next September as construction progresses on the new Aswan High Dam, and by 1968, a lake will cover the Nile valley and the surrounding desert from Aswan to the Sudan. Originally, Abu Simbel seemed doomed to vanish and dissolve beneath the rising water. It has required great engineering imagination and four years of desperate fund raising by UNESCO to assure survival for the temples to Ramses II and his queen, Nefestari...
...effort to save it must be difficult and prohibitively expensive. The French proposed building a dam to protect it from the Aswan lake, but their plan would have required constant pumping to remove seepage from the pourous sandstone under Abu Simbel. And it would have cost at least $80 million...
...Enrico Forlanini) has ferry service across the Strait of Messina, also on the Gulf of Naples and Lago di Garda. Hydrofoils are fairly common in the Soviet Union. Others skim along the Riviera and between several islands of the Aegean. Three hydrofoils ferry tourists on the Nile between Aswan and Abu Simbel...
...Nixon squired his family around the Spanish landscape, then-gathering material for two Satevepost articles about international affairs-flew off to Barcelona for "a very pleasant interview" with Generalissimo Franco. At week's end the tourists were in Egypt for another round of business-with-pleasure, seeing Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and President Nasser...
Healed Wounds. In the days when no scheme for saving the temple seemed satisfactory, when the ancient monument seemed doomed, tourists swarmed up the Nile. An air-conditioned hotel was built at Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen. Business boomed-and now it may go on and on. When Lake Nasser has filled its tremendous basin, tourists will be able to float to the temple door, where the huge statues of Ramses II, their saw wounds healed and inconspicuous, will...