Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins falling on you from the screen. Fine, you think, I'm on top of it: Hitchcock is senile so the spirit of Leon Uris is shining through. But all manner of neat details begin to make themselves felt. The movie gets to the defector's new house in Alexandria and suddenly all the CIA men are obnoxious boors, the Russian has thrice their intelligence and cock has departed from the heavy-handed moralism of the script to work ironically against...
Search for Customers. By contrast, construction of Egypt's 42-in. pipeline, which will extend 207 miles from a point south of Suez to Alexandria, has been long delayed. Building is now scheduled to begin next October. The line is also expected to have an eventual capacity of 420 million bbl. a year. If and when the Suez Canal is reopened, Egyptian officials have elaborate plans for widening and deepening it. Even with that, it might not accommodate fully laden supertankers of more than 200,000 tons. Egypt expects oil from the larger tankers to be drained into...
Last week, finally, the Administration had a willing and able recruit. Though an official acceptance was not yet in hand, the firm word at the White House was that the new sender of greetings would be Charles DiBona, of Alexandria, Va., president of the Center for Naval Analyses. The center is a 450-man think tank operated by the University of Rochester and supported by Pentagon research funds...