Word: nile
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...being on the scene, as Correspondent James Wilde was in the Nile hovels of Barsha, where the teen-age girls with water jugs on their heads will be married by 15 and dead by 40-an illustration of the problems that face Egypt still, ten years after Nasser seized power...
...military base in the desert west of the Nile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week watched four Egyptian-made rockets roar upward into the clouds. The most potent rocket, named El Kaher (Conqueror), has a range of 360 miles and could land, said Nasser, "just south of Beirut." The area just south of Beirut is better known as Israel...
Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens--Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...
...Maggie, the scrappy cat on a hot tin roof, and Big Daddy, the bull-roaring lord and master of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." Williams' dialogue sings with a lilting eloquence far from the drab, disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. And for monologues, the theater has not seen his like since the god of playwrights, William Shakespeare...
...WHITE NILE, by Alan Moorehead. The last half of the 19th century saw the Nile traced to its sources and the vast, hostile area it drained subdued by such peculiarly Victorian heroes as Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley, "Chinese" Gordon and Kitchener. A too-brief book that is the most readable of the year's popular histories...