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Moving among the tables in the Ibis café in Cairo's new Nile Hilton Hotel, pretty Afaf Abou Ali, 22, daughter of a well-to-do Alexandria family and owner of a B.A. degree from Alexandria University, went about her waitress job with more spirit than the job usually gets elsewhere in the world. After all, jobs for long-sheltered Egyptian women have until lately been few and far between, and her $150 a month at the Hilton was three times what she could earn in government work. Besides, there were unexpected fringe benefits: one day a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fringe Benefits | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Within the next 24 hours, the world's first international police force landed at Abou Suweir air base-196 men: 45 Danes, 97 Norwegians and 54 Colombians. They were the first of a projected 6.000. Along with the Colombians came the man who had brought this historic force into being: a slight-shouldered, sandy-haired Swedish civilian named Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Arms & the Man | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Wissant, France. Channel Swimmer Abdel Litif Abou Heif, 23, after swimming four miles to help his Egyptian teammates set a new cross-channel-relay record (10:51), dove right back into the swim and set a new England-France record of his own: 13:45. The U.S.'s Florence Chadwick, who hoped to make it both ways nonstop, got seasick and was pulled out of the water after ten hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 10, 1953 | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...Lowell, and in his own education. Kelleher has called him a "mine of information on the Irish in America and a self educated man whose intelligence has made him shun the worst Irish day-of-the-morning elements." He sprinkles his speech with quotes of everything from Hamlet to Abou Ben Adhem, while his command of five languages (his German is "not very good--just a reading knowledge") have made him a "discovery" for each new class of Lowell men. Snatching time from his work and his reading, Eddie has become President of the Clare Men, one of Boston...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Man From County Clare | 4/8/1953 | See Source »

Organizer Saleem Abou el Naage, a handsome, sullen young man who had served a jail term for Red activities, shouted: "Every day there's a new story we'll be moved to Libya, or the Sinai desert or Syria or Jordan . . . Tell the Arab and foreign governments we'll never go! There's not enough dollars to make us forget our dearest Palestine. Here we live in a tent, fit for four chickens, not twelve people. Have you ever heard of such a camp in Russia or Communist countries? We are not Communists. We are Moslems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Forgotten | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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