Word: luxor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple behaved like typical tourists, gliding down the Nile, clicking away at the Sphinx, even striking a matching pose in front of a pharaonic frieze at Luxor. Except, of course, that typical tourists do not have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could...
...same as Phileas Fogg's, the means even less down to earth. In a gossamer-thin (.004 in.) polyurethane balloon rigged with a 14-ft. by 10-ft. unpressurized gondola, famed Aeronaut Maxie Anderson, 46, set out from Luxor, Egypt, last week, along with fellow Businessman and Adventurer Don Ida, 47. Their plan: to travel eastward around the world-south of Iran and the U.S.S.R. (hostile airspace), south of the Himalayas (deadly to balloons), over the Pacific and North America to an eastern Mediterranean landing spot-in less than ten days. To complete the high-speed journey, the eleven...
...natives in Luxor did tell the Egyptian women that if they did not win the race they would stone them," Graves said. "They were real gutsy women...
Meanwhile, the heavyweight varisty crew raced in Luxor and Cairo on December 23, 27, and 28, finishing third in all its meets. But, returning crew members said, the excitement of their vacation on the Nile eclipsed their disappointment about the races...
Jeffrey D. Sachs, assistant professor of Economics travelled with his wife to Cairo and Luxor, touring on donkeys the latter's ancient monuments...