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...long fight. Gamal Abdel Nasser affected to be confident, but he could not bring off an appearance of indifference. TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, in a private interview, found him tense and unusually subdued, in his bare little office in the building beside the Nile that ex-King Farouk built as his yacht house. Dictator Nasser seemed more concerned about the threat of economic sanctions than of armed invasion. His right knee jiggled constantly as he talked...
...army he learned to hate the corpulent corruption of King Farouk and his senior officers. Wounded in the Palestine fighting, outraged at the army's wretched performance and sleazy equipment, Nasser went back to Cairo to conspire his way to power. Of the Free Officers' movement he says simply: "I am the original." On the night of July 22, 1952, the plotters struck. Victorious, Nasser ruled through General Mohammed Naguib for two years, then through a junta of which he was the Premier...
...packing an umbrella. The more his guests lose the more André worries. Last week, as the sun stayed out and gamblers kept gambling, André was doleful indeed. As he confided to a friend: "The man who bets the heaviest in this casino is not ex-King Farouk or Jack Warner. The heaviest bettor is poor André. He bets a billion francs ($2,857,000) a year...
...days later, on the fourth anniversary of the dethronement of ex-King Farouk, the West got a jolting reminder that Nasser has a nasty bite as well as a loud bark. Stridently haranguing a crowd of more than 150,000 with semi-hysteria reminiscent of Hitler, Nasser shouted denunciation of Israel, Britain and the U.S. for an hour and a half, then, with apparent irrelevance, turned his fire on World Bank Director Eugene Black...
While the West stammered. Nasser rode in triumph from Alexandria to Cairo, getting a hero's welcome at every stop. This was his big moment: bigger than his seizure of power, his expulsion of Farouk, his kicking out the British. Brother Arab nations cheered him too. Nasser has done it again, they said. Arab politicians are apt to consider a well-delivered jab at the West a more statesmanlike act than running one's economy properly...