Word: simbel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sake of accuracy, I would like to point out that President Kennedy's request for $4,000,000. which the House Appropriations Committee turned down [TIME, Sept. 22], was not to be used to jack up the Temple of Abu Simbel above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Uam in Egypt. The President felt that the American contribution in the form of funds accumulated in Egypt could best be used to preserve the lesser temples in the U.A.R. and Sudan and help finance archaeological exploration in the Nubian area of Egypt, also threatened once...
...Turned down, in the House Appropriations Committee, a $4,000,000 request by President Kennedy to help jack up the entire Temple of Abu Simbel 203 feet above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Dam in Egypt...
...compare with the one it was busy on last week: the raising of a Pharaoh. It started passing the hat among members of the United Nations to collect $75 million for a daring and imaginative attempt to save the impressive, rock-cut Temple of Abu Simbel near the southern border of Egypt, where for 3,000 years four colossal figures of Pharaoh Ramses II have looked out imperturbably over the Nile. Cut into the living rock are great chambers and corridors decorated with spirited bas-reliefs of Ramses' victories...