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Driven by the top musical salesmanship of perky Marcy McGuigan, tomboyish Debra Barsha, sassy Jackie Sanders and little-girl-lost Emily Loesser (Frank's daughter), this band echoes Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators, the outfit Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis joined in Some Like It Hot. Appropriately, Charles Busch, the off-Broadway drag star who co-authored Swingtime's mint-thin book (with Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci), is now playing Marian...
...being on the scene, as Correspondent James Wilde was in the Nile hovels of Barsha, where the teen-age girls with water jugs on their heads will be married by 15 and dead by 40-an illustration of the problems that face Egypt still, ten years after Nasser seized power...
...Villages. A large part of the answer will come from Egypt's 4,000 villages. Most of them resemble one called Barsha, which lies under an umbrella of bending palms on the banks of the upper Nile. Visiting it last week, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found a cluster of mud-brick hovels and 4,000 people barely subsisting on 200 acres of farm land, probably unchanged in most respects since the days of the Pharaohs. The streets are cluttered by famished yellow dogs and skinny children with red-lidded eyes half-closed by trachoma and stomachs distended by bilharziasis...
...years ago, change came to Barsha in the shape of a government organizer from Cairo, who convinced the villagers that they should pool their resources in a cooperative and set up interest-free loans for seed and fertilizer. The government has built a combined school and medical clinic to serve Barsha and other villages (the building is still empty for lack of a technical staff). A circuit-riding doctor pays a once-a-week call at Barsha, and Cairo surprised the villagers last year by passing out free insecticides to combat the cotton-worm blight and, when this failed, paid...
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