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Greedy for gold, slaves and ivory, Egypt's "liberator," Mohammed Ali, conquered the Sudan in 1820 and began 60 years of maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
...Male-man," argues Simone de Beauvoir, is relatively lucky. He has raised himself by the bootstraps from the gutter of nonentity to the dignity of "human being ; he may, at will, transcend even this and rise to the stature of an "existent." But woman's uplift has barely begun. Far from being an existent, she is not even a human being yet. She is a "lie" and a "treason" to her own reality, because she is "in large part man's invention." Her plight in a man-made world is summed up in two of Author de Beauvoir...
They had lost their jobs, had got behind in the rent, had come to fear they were "sliding to the gutter." He was a photographer; to buy whisky, he got a job as a restaurant counterman. The pair drank . . . and drank . . . and finally made a suicide pact. He remembered saying: "I'm going to strangle you." He remembered her answering, "O.K., honey, get it over with." When he awakened, he found the woman dead. He had turned on the gas-he hadn't wanted to live. Gently enough, the cops led him away...
...spreading false and slanderous charges that the Democratic Party is soft on Communism . . . Fantastic . . . smear technique ..." II "The Republican Party and the Republican candidate have waged . . . one of the lowest street-gutter campaigns that I have ever seen...
...their gutter-eye view of America, U.S.A. Confidential, the New York Daily Mirror's Editor Jack Lait and Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer threw enough mud to bring six libel suits against them (TIME, May 19). Biggest of the six was by Dallas' elegant Neiman-Marcus store. It sued for $7,400,000 on the basis of Lait & Mortimer's statement in the book that "some Neiman models are call girls-the top babes in town . . . Price, a hundred bucks a night. The salesgirls are good, too . . . twenty bucks on the average." Named with Lait & Mortimer were Crown...