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...predictions are "By 1959 Harvard will be the champs of the league." Clay R. Nile, Middletown...
...export drive has devastated competitors. Says French Engineer Gaston Duverger: "All over the world German salesmen are walking circles around us." In Iran practically all buses running are now Mercedes-Benzes. Two of Baghdad's proud new bridges are German-built, as is the new one across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...
...Percy Howard) Newby, 39, is a puckish soldier turned professor, proletarian turned sahib. His The Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...
Nuri and Nasser now contend for Arab leadership, but the rivalry between the peoples of the Euphrates and the Nile valleys is actually as old as civilization, which first dawned in their valleys. Then, competing empires reached out from Babylon and Thebes into the land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles...