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...Demagogue Pierre Poujade (TIME, March 19, 1956) and Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959 and May 26, 1958). An old North African hand, he was able to judge last week's Algerian story against the background of his coverage of the last days of French rule in Morocco and of the British-French invasion of Suez...
...royal palace at Rabat, Morocco's genial King Mohammed V was caught in a heartwarming domestic moment, as he fed a breakfast dainty to his dainty youngest daughter, Princess Amina, 5. Though plenty of gold and silver tableware was on hand, Mohammed ladled out the victuals with a wooden spoon...
Then, in the presence of Morocco's visiting King Mohammed V, Soviet Power Station Minister Ignaty Novikov, Cuba's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and scores of other dignitaries, including the American and British charges d'affaires. President Gamal Nasser yanked the switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert...
...puffiness around the eyes was the most visible sign of his age), and there was spring to his step (he sometimes startled visitors by bounding up stairs two at a time). On his trip he stood bareheaded in the Italian rain (it was just after greeting the King of Morocco in foul Washington weather that he suffered a stroke in 1957), stood for more than 100 miles while riding through the streets of eleven countries, came out of it all with less apparent fatigue than most of those who accompanied...
...eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound...