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...midday the police phone rang. It was Zouzou; she didn't like the hospital. With a groan, the police moved Zouzou to the Mena House, near the Pyramids, and installed her in room 35, the honeymooners' favorite. "At least there are not so many foreigners around," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...great stone mansion in Garden City, Safsaf was lonely. He asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Price of Anchovies. A well-to-do villager had already broken off his son's engagement with Mena, the eldest Malavoglia girl; the shipwright now ordered his daughter to stop seeing young 'Ntoni, Mena's brother. Grandfather 'Ntoni only drove the fishing harder. The neighbors said he was "hunting for trouble with a candlestick." One night he found it. The boom fell in a bad storm and struck his head. 'Ntoni and Alessi, his little brother, barely got the boat ashore; Grandfather 'Ntoni was laid up for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate in Sicily | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...Kuwait's loading dock at Mena al Ahmadi, which thrusts nearly a mile out into the Persian Gulf, is the world's largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Mena, Ark., while the Campa Bros, circus trumpeted through its one-night stand, nine-year-old Maria Campa, granddaughter of one of the circus owners, was clawed and chewed to death by a young lion considered so tame he was tied to a stake outside his cage. Next day, as the Campa circus trundled along the rain-slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Battle of the Species | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

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