Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep it afloat Assistant Manager Charles F. Moberly Bell, onetime Cairo correspondent, teamed up with two high-pressure Yankee salesmen, Horace Hooper and William Jackson. They put the Times into the book business, with special editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Times Book Club. The Times won back its reputation chiefly by its foreign coverage, which it could ill afford...
Since the war, Nicole has played in Cairo, Prague, Tel Aviv, Brussels and London. She falls head over heels in love with each new city in turn. Last week, she was in love with Manhattan-its Philharmonic ("It leefts"), its Automats, its Empire State Building. If Nicole had her way-no matter where she was-she would give a concert every night. "I am never nervous. Only very, very happy. And very, very sad when it is over...
...steam-driven towboat Kokoda, running nearly 160 miles ahead of the diesel-driven Helena in a 1,100-mile race up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis, got stuck in the ice ten miles above Cairo, Ill., barely managed to get up enough headway to keep its lead...
Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
...food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas tree and all the trimmings and hoped he would be there to enjoy it, but chances were that he would be covering the news in Palestine on Christmas...