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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major problem, however, is to protect from unnundation large sites such as Philae, and Abu Simble, which cannot be removed. The former, Brew said, is "about the size of the Harvard Yard," while the latter is distinguished by 75-foot carved statues of Ramses II guarding the entrance to a series of rock-hewn temple chambers...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Brew Heads UNESCO Commission To Salvage Archeological Remains | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

...based on "the intangible benefits and institutional imperatives" of the situation. Lawrence B. Ekpebu '60 stressed the fact that "both in the founding and growth of the organization, Harvard has played a unique role." He emphasized the College's important position in the country and added "we cannot afford not to be members of the nation's only student organization...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Supports NSA, Rejects NDEA Findings | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...airlines cannot count on an automatic increase in air travel to fill the new seats. While IATA international air travel has been increasing at a rate of about 15% a year, that is not enough to fill the new jet capacity. The obvious solution is to cut fares to bring air travel within reach of a wider market. The idea has already been tried on the North Atlantic; last year for the first time IATA allowed "economy" fares 20% below tourist rates, and the lines reported a passenger increase of 26.8% for the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL AIR FARES | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...millions of tons of U.S. coal to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of German steel back to the States at handsome profits. When the war was over, he unloaded 50,000 tons of top-priced steel to desperate Ruhr traders just as the price broke. Said Willy: "You cannot learn hat; you must know it by instinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wily Willy | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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