Word: mediterraneans
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...every way," the Soviet Union was airlifting daily some 1,000 tons of combat equipment, including highly effective SA-6 missiles, into Egypt and Syria. More than 17 Soviet ships, including six cargo vessels loaded with armored vehicles, steamed through the Dardanelles, pushing Russian naval strength in the eastern Mediterranean to about 75 vessels, well above any previous levels...
...with Israel from Palestinian territorial demands that scarcely concerned Egypt. Only last week, in what seemed like the most conciliatory move of all, Cairo announced that the U.S.'s Bechtel Corp. had been chosen to construct a new $345 million pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) even though Cairo and Washington have not had any formal diplomatic relations since...
Even before the Six-Day War of 1967 shut down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise...
...Danish architect, who drew his sketches without visiting Australia, was struck by photographs of the dark landscape and tangled foreshore scrub: "There is no white here to take the sun and make it dazzle the eyes-not like the Mediterranean or South America. So I had white in mind when I designed the Opera House. The final effect will at times resemble what we call Alpengluhen [alpenglow], the color you get on snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding...
...complex sexual postures. After his wife persuades him to hire a clerk to staff the shop (Beatrice Romand), Claude tries to seduce the clerk, but she turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort of free-for-all Mediterranean cruise. In the worst tradition of French farce, Claude's wife fakes inconstancy with another man to arouse her husband's dormant jealousies and revive his sense of the bourgeois proprieties...