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...Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall, handsome man with greying hair. While passers-by stopped to watch in horror and some screamed. "Beware, khawaga [foreigner]," Norman removed his watch and sunglasses, laid them on the parapet. Turning his back to the street, he moved three steps backward, dropped to instant death on the pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Suicide at Nile View | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...only children under 14 who turned into cats in Sakelta. Soon after the children are tucked in each night (said the villagers), the youngsters become rigid, their breathing stops, and their souls take the shape of cats roaming the streets. "I called one day on Grocer Ahmed Khawaga and asked for some free candy," recalled one kiddy-cat named Ibrahim El Tayeb, "but he refused me. So that night I sneaked into his home as a cat and ate up his wedding dinner." Egyptian psychologists said it was all a hallucination. Some of the villagers, however, preferred to think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD OVER: A Show for a Goddess | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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