Word: misr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo's daily Al Misr, Columnist Mamoud Abdel Moneim deplored the silly way Egyptian women have been acting ever since Cinemactor Robert Taylor hit town. Moaned Mamoud: "They have found excuses to knock at his door . . . reserve restaurant tables next to his . . . They have been observed making provocative gestures with cigarettes drooping from their lips . . . Will [Robert Taylor] think there are only flighty women in Egypt? Are there no men to keep them in check...
Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who has recently been cooking deals like popcorn (TIME, Nov. 9), plans to build a $6,000,000, 400-room luxury hotel in Cairo. The Egyptian government and Misr Bank will put up the money, give Hilton a 20-year lease...
...Egyptian port of Alexandria, a band struck up the national anthem, and Egypt's flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic...
...counter to the Wafdists'. Into office as chief of the royal cabinet (which has no explicit powers, but advises the King) went Dr. Hafez Ann Pasha, Ambassador to Great Britain from 1936 to 1938 (and admiring author of The English in Their Homes), lately head of the Bank Misr, one of the largest financial houses in the Arab world. In as royal adviser on foreign affairs went Old Oxonian Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha (TIME, Dec. 24), who last month quit London with noticeable reluctance after serving there as Egypt's Ambassador for the past seven years...