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...minarets, the call of the muezzin, and the wheeling of the slender-winged kites in Cairo's twilight sky. He falls recklessly in love with a raven-haired Coptic 16-year-old named Aziza. Their furtive courtship gives Author Schiemer a chance to explore Egyptian domestic customs from cuisine to boudoir. One custom: the exhibiting of the wedding-night bedsheet to the bridegroom's parents as proof of the bride's virginity...
...ruins of once proud Carthage, which boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...
Brawling his way to power in 1935, Zachariades (who toughened himself by bathing in freezing water after the ancient Spartan custom) knifed a policeman to death in an Athens street fight. Next year Greek Dictator John Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In prison, learning that Stalin was still honoring his pact with Hitler, Zachariades ordered Greek Communists to cease resisting the 1940 Italian invasion. When Greece fell to the Axis, the Germans shipped Zachariades from Corfu to Dachau, where the U.S. Army found him in 1945 and flew him home to Greece...
...tangle of impossible circumstances, the Mountie goes away for five years in his attempt to clear up the wrong-doing. Fickle womanhood weakens, the wife marries the villain, and also "gives half her heart" to the Mountie's best friend. He returns, and in a delightful departure from established custom, the air is cleared only by the intrusion of the puzzled playwright. His characterization as the willowy, frustrated aesthete provides welcome relief from the tiring melodramatic heros and heroines, and is the most penetrating in the play...
COPPER PRICES are floating down from their ceiling. After long strikes last year which cut supplies by 150,000 tons and pushed prices up some 60% to a peak 55? a lb. for U.S. custom-smelted copper, U.S., Chilean and African mines are finally starting to catch up. Result: prices in the world (i.e., London) market last week tumbled nearly...