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Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser received a visitor who, by wide repute, was a purveyor of quaint and useless notions. His claim: he had solved the problem that for 7,000 years had resisted solution, the taming of the Nile. Nasser called in a trusted engineer, who said, "The man's crazy." "That may be," Egypt's new young boss replied, "but don't come back until you're sure." The crazy idea was to build a dam barely 300 feet high which would back up the Nile's waters for 400 miles...
...have dammed the Nile in many places, but still it drifts sluggishly for half the year leaving much good land parched, and then spews its silt-laden floodwaters, wasted, into the Mediterranean. Dams upstream in Ethiopia, Uganda and the Sudan are out of Egypt's control and too far to bring electric power...
When Egypt thumbed its nose at the United States late last month by openly arranging with Russia to purchase Czechoslovak arms, the State Department protested. But when the Soviet Ambassador to Egypt offered to finance the proposed Nile dam as Aswan and to expand the existing American technical assistance program in Egypt, he jolted the U.S. into action. Last Thursday the State Department hastily announced that the U.S. was itself offering to finance this...
Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
...Nasser revolution. The Brotherhood's leadership was immobilized. By a curious coincidence, it was noted that a pamphlet put out by the Brotherhood bore traces of Naguib's hand. The genial general was asked to go, and meekly went into isolation in an expropriated palace on the Nile. Said Nasser: "He was a good man, though a simple one. He was really ignorant. Power spoiled...