Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott will apply even to her next movie announced last week: Cleopatra...
When the new High Dam at Aswam, Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
Brew, just back from a three week trip to Egypt, termed the magnitude of the problem tremendous. While there, he was head of a special 24 member UNESCO commission of archaeologists, architects, and engineers to advise on feasible methods of salvage...
...student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...
More painful was the Arab-Israeli infection, which flared up anew as Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir rose to demand "collective moral pressure" by the U.N. to enforce its 1951 decision condemning Egypt's refusal to let ships carrying Israeli goods pass through the Suez Canal. Indignantly, Golda Meir reported that the Danish freighter Inge Toft, which was stopped by the Egyptians last May with a cargo originating in Israel, "is being held to this day at Port Said." The United Arab Republic's Farid Zeineddine promptly asked for the floor and, hardily ignoring...