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...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. He took the picture on the last color...
Thus last week Gamal Abdel Nasser and Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied at the console by the Presidents of Iraq and Yemen, formally completed the first stage of the Aswan Dam project. After 1,550 days of work, the laborers had finished piling up enough rock for the cofferdam to stem the river; the explosion set off by Nasser and his visitors opened up a diversion channel through which the Nile will now flow until the High Dam itself is completed. As the white-crested Nile rushed into the new channel, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko muttered in an unwontedly poetic mood...
...they discuss the final fate of threatened Abu Simbel, the U.S. and other countries still show no sense of urgency. Even if the water starts rising on schedule in 1964. there will be time left for some kind of action. A simple, cheap cofferdam can protect the temple temporarily while last-minute efforts are made to save...
...main stages planned: 1) the blasting out of a mile-long channel to detour the Nile around the main dam; at one point the channel will go underground through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of a power station; 2 ) the construction of an upstream cofferdam to steer the Nile into its new bed. and of a second cofferdam downstream so that the river will not seep back into the dam site after its detour; 3) the building of the main dam itself, which cannot begin until the channel is cut and cofferdams are in place, supposedly...
Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above...