Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENGINEERS now have something less than two years in which to accomplish one of the most intricate and delicate moving jobs in history-the removal to safe high ground of the fabled 3,000-year-old Temples of Abu Simbel on Egypt's Upper Nile (TIME, Nov. 23, 1959, et seq.). When the High Dam at Aswan is completed, the backed-up Nile waters will have inundated the present site of the temples. Last week an exhibition depicting this vast rescue operation opened in the Exhibition Center of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan, the first place...
...cross makes us that much better a have been higher but for the consummate skill of the MEDEVAC pilots. During one recent battle, Bloomquist found himself swooping in behind four fighter-bombers to pick up seven wounded Americans. Suddenly one of the escorting Skyraiders burst into flames from a ground hit, and its partners peeled away to protect it. All alone, Bloomquist's chopper-call sign "Dust-off 174"-touched down amid wither ing crossfire from Viet Cong .50-cal. machine guns. Bloomquist ordered his crew to load the wounded, calmly polished his sunglasses, then rotated...
Also, the cost of ground war is high. Last week Saigon revised its casualty totals for the bloody battle of Dongxoai. The toll: more than 700 government troops and 150 civilians dead v. an estimated 700 Viet Cong. But Saigon's new military leaders seemed ready and willing to keep up the grim ground battle. To buttress their fighting force, 600 U.S. paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were now holding a vital flank of Route 14, at the same time guarding the airstrip at Phuocvinh, a few miles from Bencat and Dongxoai...
...site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' William I in 1815). De Gaulle delivered his opinion of all that to Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. Result: Belgium decided to stay away from the ceremonies, mainly on the ground that it was not an independent power in 1815, and the Germans and Dutch tactfully decided to send minor diplomats...
American bishops are traditionally better known for their building programs than for their theological skills. Cody is no exception. Son of a St. Louis fireman, he graduated in 1932 from the North American College, traditional breeding ground of bishops. For five years he worked with Giovanni Battista Montini, now Pope Paul VI, as one of the Vatican's assistant secretaries of state. Cody served seven years as an auxiliary bishop in St. Louis and became Bishop of Kansas City St. Joseph in 1956. There he earned a reputation as a tough-minded organization man who could raise...