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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...
...succeeds with his plan, Nyerere took his own precautions last week against repetition of the riots that nearly cost him his government. He arrested many top leftist trade union leaders, whom he charged with planning a general strike lu support of the mutiny. He forbade distribution of the Aga Khan's Nairobi-based newspaper, the Nation, which had reported accurately but too zealously the near-toppling of the government. To lessen potential dissent, he replaced British army commanders with Africans. At the same time, he appointed a commission to consider constitutional changes that would make Tanganyika "a democratic...
...Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts. Queen Elizabeth gave Kenyatta the royal lodge at Sagana; the Aga Khan turned over to him his own former residence; a group of U.S. businessmen donated a white Lincoln Continental...
...ITALY. Summer skies were sunny in Italy, but that created its own problems. Tourists fleeing from the frozen north created colossal traffic jams at the Brenner Pass and three-hour tie-ups along other roads. Italians who flocked to Sardinia's much-ballyhooed Costa Esmeralda, where the Aga Khan is building a resort, found themselves quartered in half-finished hotels with neither lights nor hot water. And the annual crush of German tourists never quite materialized. Offended by a rash of Italian-made anti-German films, some German newspapers advised their readers to take their business elsewhere...
Introducing itself as a guide "for tourists who own no oil wells in Texas, and are unrelated to the Aga Khan," $5 a Day sets a chatty, no-nonsense pace that struck oil with 15,000 readers when it first appeared in 1957, this year is on its way to a record sale of 150,000. It leaves descriptions of the Louvre or Westminster Abbey to others, concerns itself single-mindedly with practicalities -the cheapest ways of getting to Europe and moving around once there, how to rent a bicycle in Copenhagen, how to read a menu in Italian...