Word: lifting
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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the U.N. agency in charge of saving Abu Simbel, rejected the French dam in favor of a more imaginative Italian proposal to cut the whole temple free of the rock and lift it to the top of the cliff by hydraulic jacks. Once raised above the rising water, the temple would be safe indefinitely, and it would have an attractive site on the rim of the great new artificial lake. The lifting would cost $42 million plus $24 million for finishing...
...Latin America's advance can be attributed to President Kennedy's celebrated Alliance for Progress is doubtful, since that amorphous program seems to mean something different to each Latin American official. But by its mere expression of U.S. interest, it undoubtedly has contributed a measure of psychological lift...
...Navy, turning to a new use of helicopters, is equipping each of its 250-odd destroyers with two unmanned, remote-controlled choppers to attack submarines. Developed by Long Island's Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., the 1,600-lb., all-weather, buglike aircraft can lift off a destroyer, reach sonar-detected subs as far as 15 miles away, unleash two homing torpedoes and land back on the ship-all at the electronic command of shipboard officers. Called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), the system is designed to strike submarines before they get within torpedo range of the destroyers...
Another Parliament? Kubitschek-the man who started Brasilia in the wilds, and mortgaged his country's present to its future-favors an emphasis on developing basic industries, with only a nod to immediate attempts to lift the standard of living for Latin America's masses. That, he argued, should come later, after the industrial base is secure. Lleras believes the reverse, argues for priority to short-term social projects such as housing, public health, roads and schools. "Our purposes are the same," said Kubitschek tactfully, "but our ways of looking at problems are sometimes different...
...minutes later, a cluster of exploding pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed to the control center at the lab. "We were flying blind during lift-off and injection," says Bill Collier, Assistant Project Manager. "But about the time the panels came open, there was a shift of facial styles from worried scowls to big fat grins." Mariner II was safely delivered, apparently thriving in its adult environment, and on its way to Venus...