Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Traces. The dam project already has changed the life of Upper Egypt. The once-sleepy resort of Aswan, where thin-blooded Edwardians and the Aga Khan wintered, has become a boom town; its population has effectively tripled in the past four years to 140,000. Steel mills, nucleonics plants, and vast chemical complexes that will provide fertilizer to replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt." Four resort hotels, plus the Aswan Hilton currently abuilding, loom glassy and air-conditioned ("TV in every room") above the Old Cataract Hotel, where...
...land searching for last-minute finds. At least 23 of Nubia's major historical sites have been or will be res cued from the waters-some of them simply by being cut up and carted away. A West German engineering firm won a UNESCO contract to save the Upper River's most famous temple: the sandstone statuary and columns carved 3,000 years ago on the order of Pharaoh Ramses II at Abu Simbel, 180 miles above Aswan...
Japan's political parties were as rattled as if the Emperor had suddenly reclaimed his forsaken divinity. Soka Gakkai, a society of Buddhist laymen, already holds 15 seats in the 250-member upper house, plus some 4,000 seats on local councils. Soka Gakkai (the Value-Creation Society) is more than just another party; it is a militantly organized, crusading sect vaguely combining Buddhism with left-wing reform or perhaps revolutionary politics, and its confessed ambition is to convert Japan and then the world...
...erudite 9% of the population (representing upper income and education brackets) bought 54% of all the books sold...
...when it came to the wage rises he favors-for the men and women in the middle and upper reaches of Government-he took his case straight to the businessmen. He urged the Chamber of Commerce to support a federal pay raise bill-and put the request, as usual, in terms that any businessman could understand. "The middle level positions," said Johnson, "pay less than half the comparable scales of business and industry." Then he drove the point home by announcing that "one of the great economic advisers"-Walter Heller-was planning to quit the Government because his fixed salary...