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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safeguarded by a system of dikes, levees and protective dams at a cost of $64 million. If any more of the 15 major temples and historic sites located in the area to be flooded are also to be preserved, experts estimate that the cost might run as high as $100 million...
Bigger Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments...
Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...convocation of the high-domed American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, members listened closely to papers on such diverse subjects as Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Neurospora and Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy. But the most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers. Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt, 57. whose excursions into advanced ornithology are somehow sandwiched into his workaday duties as president of massive E.I. du Pont de Nemours...
...Polish Communist Party Leader Gomulka as a "moody, irascible" man whose "leadership has created rifts that could grow." The immediate cause for last week's expulsion appeared to be a story that the Polish government, getting even tougher, had brought a former Stalinist from diplomatic exile for a high army post...