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When Ramses built his temple, he probably expected it to impress the world until the end of time. He certainly did not dream that 3,185 years after his death a gigantic dam would block the Nile, and a long winding lake would creep gradually upstream to cover the temple's site with 190 ft. of water. But that is what is happening. Unless the ancient temple can be protected, the water backed up by the Aswan High Dam will submerge and probably crumble...
Every year, State Department officials, foreign services officials, congressmen, columnists, and scholars, like salmon swimming upstream, come together to shout about the inadequacy of entertainment allowances for U.S. diplomats. "The total annual budget for 100 embassies and 350 consulates is $850,000"; it is an old and familiar grievance...
...discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer ford, farther upstream...
...great day, radios all over Egypt blared the new hit tune. At Aswan itself, 430 miles upstream from Cairo, thousands of white-robed fellahin flocked along the Nile's reddish-granite brink. Two trainloads of newsmen arrived from Cairo...
Asparagus Upstream. As a key U.S. waterway, the Ohio thrived; the distinctive old steamboat whistles gave way to the diesel-powered towboats' raucous horns, and each year the towboats nursed some 80 million tons of cargo up through the 46 locks. But as a thing of beauty, the Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused...