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Guests checking into Cairo's Nile Hilton these days are greeted by a polite note warning: "Upon instructions from the government, there will be an airraid trial at any time." With characteristic efficiency, the Egyptians began their first drill with an all-clear signal. On the streets of the capital, increasing numbers of autos have their headlights painted blue to reduce their visibility from the air. Both the drills-which went off largely as planned-and the "blue-out" are signs of Egypt's growing concern over Israeli air raids...
...their first meeting, the affair that followed, the marriage. Abrhám, a television repairman, takes her to the hospital, then goes on his rounds, gazing at the young with the fresh insight of a new father. In one sequence, as he watches schoolchildren make a game of an airraid drill, his mind-and the camera-recall the real thing, complete with screaming jets and exploding bombs...
Ambiguous Announcement. Though the crisis had so far stopped short of actual fighting, the cities of both sides were still on what amounted to a war footing. Cairo's streets were clogged with military convoys heading eastward. Airraid drills blacked out Cairo, Alexandria and the Jordanian section of Jerusalem. In Israel, schoolchildren were put to work sandbagging their schools, and car owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines...
...Britain, during the blitz, special airraid shelters were created for pregnant women and invalids. One night, an airraid warden called down into the depths of the Piccadilly Circus tube station: "I say, are there any pregnant women there?" Instantly came back your answer: "Gorblimey, guv'nor, give us a chawnce-we've only been here seven minutes...
...baths), the hotels-stretch their policy of planned entertainment into every waking hour. Gone are the toomlers, the noisy resident clown's who sang welcome and farewell songs for guests and yakked it up all over the lobby. Instead, there are art schools, beauty parlors as jammed as airraid shelters under attack, discussion groups, dancing classes. And everywhere, from swimming pool to dining room, there is the lavish style show that the guests put on themselves. The dawn-to-dawn display of jewels and furs has been known to disconcert even the G's well-trained staff. Last...