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...wonder the U.S. won't give a cent to help save the 3,000-year-old Temple of Abu Simbel [April 12]. Right now Colorado River water caught by Glen Canyon Dam is rushing toward Rainbow Bridge-the most beautiful and largest of all known natural stone arches, a natural wonder of the world carved by nature long before Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II thought of praising himself with a temple carved by slaves. Congress vowed to save the bridge in the 1956 Colorado River Storage Act. But the promised protection facilities have never been built. Maybe the nations that...
...Iran picked up a ceremonial telephone and spoke an order. Seconds later, tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...
...Glenn's space vehicle.'' So the ex-beautician, who last December won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement from oil-rich William August Bartholomae, announced that she will spend $1,000,000 of it to build a church shaped like the Mercury 7 on her Brea Canyon ranch near Los Angeles. "It will be open to the public for meditation and peace of mind," says Sara. She plans to have the chapel completed by Feb. 20, 1964, the second anniversary of Glenn's triple orbit...
...comic strips, features, medical advice, the Gallup poll and assorted odds and ends, with an extensive clientele of 1,786 daily and weekly newspapers. Combined with Field's own Sun-Times-Daily News syndicate, which peddles to 73 papers such wares as Ann Landers. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Steve Canyon, and the dispatches of the News's foreign correspondents, the new syndicate made Graham's Post-Times syndication of 35 papers look puny...
...Webb School of California has an outstanding paleontological program, which a world-famous Harvard paleontologist claims is unequaled in any secondary school in the nation. Although we have no "drownproofing" course, we do have an annual climb out of the Grand Canyon and hold an unofficial record of one hour and 35 minutes for the climb. Can Andover beat that...