Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler...
...sizzling angry. It wasn't that he "doubted the truth" of the memo, he told a purpling Senator McClellan. But he himself, said McNamara. had "done everything possible to bottle up what is a very damaging memorandum." He had directly ordered that it be locked in a Pentagon safe. And now here it was on the front pages. "This has happened to me 15 or 20 times in the last 26 months." rumbled McNamara. "I became so upset about the situation that on several occasions I have discussed it with the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover...
...circulation, pulled out all the stops. BIG SURPRISE PACKAGE FOR YOU!, Said the Journal, in a crimson bannerline, and it took three full-page ads just to tell readers what the surprise was: lots more of the same-a new cash giveaway game, a serialized version of Fall-Safe, and a promise of articles by nearly everyone from Adlai Stevenson to William F. Buck ley Jr. Even French Novelist Andre Maurois turned up with a sort of Gallicized "Dear Abby" column of "advice to wom en on marriage, love and how to face life's problems...
...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...
...only governments or large and dignified institutions may apply. Five temples are on the bargain counter. Three of them: Dendur, dedicated by Caesar Augustus to two drowned heroes; Dabod. built by a Nubian king; and Taffeh, built during the Roman period, have already been dismantled and moved to safe, high ground. The other two: Ellesya, built by Thutmosis III 3,500 years ago, and Derr, built by Ramses II, are, like Abu Simbel. cut from rock. They must be pried loose from the cliff before they can be moved. A group of Italian institutions is reportedly interested in Ellesya...