Word: haifa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stereo. In Haifa, Israel, annoyed by a howling dog, Hi-Fi Fancier Leon Shaudinischky made an hour-long recording of the dog's bark, played it back at full volume, scared the dog away for good...
...letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food and water to last three days and hired a Nubian boy to guide them through the desert...
Uncertain Guide. For nearly three weeks, searching parties crisscrossed the scorching desert, and helicopters hovered over the deep desert canyons. Though the travelers had been seen at the U.A.R. border post of El Shallal, they had never turned up at Wadi Haifa. Those whom the police questioned were shocked to hear that anyone had attempted the trip in two small cars not specially equipped for the desert: since all roads and railways end at Aswan, the only really safe way to make the trip is by Nile steamer. The adventurers had either not known this or not cared...
Arriving aboard Turkey's S.S. Istanbul (he refuses to travel on Israeli boats because the Jewish crews must work on the Sabbath), Teitelbaum was welcomed by a crowd of black-robed, bearded Jews, who had waited along Haifa's docks under a burning sun. A few yards away, well segregated from their men, stood the women, sweating heavily under their enveloping black garments, which left only hands and face exposed to the air. The rabbi walked down the gangplank supported by two of the Israeli policemen that he recently compared to "Hitler's Gestapo." When photographers tried...
Joanovici was reported seen in Germany, Switzerland, Egypt. But he turned up in Haifa, Israel, in a small group of Jewish refugees arriving by plane from Morocco. He gave his name as Joseph Levy. "All ten of the passengers on the plane had passports in the name of Joseph Levy," he adds with a grin...