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Always a realist, he accepted the ultimatum of an obscure general delivered by a turncoat politician. He abdicated, and quit Egypt within the six hours specified. As he stood on the quay to embark, his huge, beefy frame encased in a white naval uniform, tears spilled down his cheeks. Twenty-one guns fired the royal salute, and the royal yacht Mahroussa (meaning Protected) put past the harbor's red and green entrance lights and steamed for Italy. It carried Farouk, his 19-year-old wife, their seven-month-old son, now King Fuad II, and 204 royal trunks...
...time experiences strengthened Conant's views about Communism. At Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, his job was to decide what scientific projects the United States should embark upon. A dramatic incident in this job was his part in deciding that the atomic bomb was enough of a possibility to make an investment of $2 Million worthwhile. A more mundane part was the assigning of scientist to the projects and committees on which he thought they would he most valuable one man a Canadian--whom Conant at pointed to a minor committee later turner out to be a member...
...their cultural and economic and social standards. To save themselves, they must find some race willing to reshape the Universe, for they themselves are too specialized and well adjusted to the job. They find this race on Earth, and under the direction of vast think machines, the Earthlings embark...
...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...matter of choice when they wrote: "It may be that the kind of woman who goes to college, and stays there until she gets her degree, is simply by nature the self-sufficient type who does not regard marriage as woman's ultimate destiny-and will not embark upon it except under the most promising circumstances...