Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your great magazine, under the heading . . . "Back of the Barn" [TIME, May 6] . . . made this statement: "The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray...
...told you . . . that Murray was sleepy? How did you arrive at the conclusion that Murray is sleepier than Cairo, Ill.? Have you or any of your roving "asses of the barn" ever been to Murray...
Through the cloisters of Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark filed an excited swarm of sweating, portly pashas to elect a new patriarch, the 114th successor to St. Mark as Pope of Egyptian Christianity. Among the electors, for the first time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed...
...biggest used car ring. In 18 months it had handled about 5,000 cars, worth $4,000,000 at ceiling prices, sold them for $7,000,000. The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray, Ky. The indicted ringleader: dark, stocky Ben Fishel of Cairo, whose business ran merrily on while he served in the Army...
Peace was a clamor, a quest, a foreboding struggle. But politicians and publicists accounted for nearly all the news. Seldom had the people been quieter than in the months before V-E day, 1946. Even where "popular" demonstrations occurred (in Detroit, or Trieste, or Cairo) they had a manipulated look as of soldiers marshaled for parade. While their leaders made history, what went on among the people for whom (and ultimately by whom) history is made? Their leaders were concerned (perhaps necessarily) with remote and technical matters-U.N. procedures, boundaries, interest rates on international loans; from what was said...