Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert and giving another 700,000 acres the capability of producing several crops a year instead of only...
...Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take the offer most to our benefit." Despite the Russians' head start, Japan, Italy, Britain, Austria and West Germany are running...
...Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America-close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian Jesuit sociologist who has spent the last three years in Chile, is now director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences...
...grows weekly: last week, besides collaring Balcioglu, police stood silently by at Istanbul's airport when Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalists and editor-publisher of the daily Vatan (Nation), arrived from a trip to Pakistan to put his affairs in order before entering prison for his third conviction in as many years...
...baron has been taking time-off from his three souvenir shops to run his Olympic candidates out to the ski slopes in his Studebaker. The top candidates for the three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure...