Word: nile
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...Shepheard's Hotel glimmered palely in the Cairo night, and its veranda lights were reflected in the Nile. In a fifth-floor suite three-year-old Prince Nawaf of Saudi Arabia lay fast asleep. In the bedroom of a similar suite three floors below dozed the Begum Aga Khan, 52, a handsome Frenchwoman who was "Miss France of 1932" and is the widow of the wealthy Aga Khan, who lies buried 500 miles upriver at Aswan...
...same high dam that the U.S. proposed, then refused to underwrite before Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The news went over big in the Middle East. A pro-Western Beirut newspaper cried approvingly: "The Soviet Union has taken the place of the West on the banks of the Nile to help Nasser at long last to build the Pyramid of the 20th century...
...down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that Big Daddy (Burl Ives) may be dying, and Maggie's real mission is to protect her share of the inheritance from Brick's brother Gooper (Jack...
...ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground water, which is plentiful in the Middle East, the U.S. will supply isotopes of the kind used by oilmen to trace pipeline leaks. They could map extraordinary untapped active reservoirs, such as the hidden river below the bed of the Nile, which carries 560 billion cubic meters of water per year, or six times the flow of the mighty Nile itself...