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...their big projects, the brothers have only a small staff of 30 employees working in a 14-room office. But the staff works with all the precision of an army's GHQ, directing 30 to 40 different subcontractors so skillfully that they amaze the passing thousands with their logistical skill...
...From his GHQ at Abbasiya Barracks early one morning this week, flying squads roared into Cairo, rounded up 62 sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely...
...Runs His Show. Ever since the coup Naguib has been working 18 hours a day, bedding down at night on a shabby army cot outside his office in Abbasiya Barracks, his GHQ. He is up with the buglers (6 a.m.) in time to say his morning prayers and read a chapter from the Koran before sitting down to breakfast (yoghurt, one tomato, brown bread) and the morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies...
Controlling the hoopla, like organists on the keyboard, throwing in an extra furioso here and an obbligato there, were the boys at headquarters. On the Hilton's eleventh floor, the Eisenhower GHQ was somewhat disorganized but fervent."Demonstration materials" went out by the truckload. As one load of 600 Eisenhower hats was sent to the front, Volunteer Worker George McMullen said: "Don't worry, we'll have the bodies to go under those hats. Bodies are our job. We know just where to call when we need, let's say 150 bodies for a demonstration...
...floors above, Senator Lodge is presiding over Eisenhower GHQ. The place is plastered with 300 Ike pictures and blossoming with other Ike propaganda, including a necktie (worn by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty) that proclaims "Yo prefiero a Ike," "I mi piace Ike," "Für mich Ike," and so on, in 27 languages, all told...