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...equatorial South, on the left bank of the White Nile, the King of the Shilluks sat under a mango tree, wearing a white sash and stroking his tufted beard. His Majesty's illiterate subjects kissed his black feet and asked: "For whom shall we vote?" The King said: "Ask the white...
...beginning in 1299, had sent Ottoman legions smashing at Vienna's gates and made Budapest a suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing up the best of the remainder. The greatest empire between Augustus and Victoria had shrunk to a small, lifeless inland state...
...Sauter-one of the leaders of the band-wrote something on a slate and held it up for all the players to see. They went into Moonlight on the Ganges the way it had never been heard before on the shores of Lake Michigan, the Mississippi, the Hudson, the Nile or the Ganges...
...painter who amused himself by imagining the Pygmies of the upper Nile (opposite page, bottom) broke with tradition. Like many late Pompeian artists, he found a sketchy, exaggerated, caricaturing approach best suited to his age. His somewhat bloodthirsty and hurried cartoon seems remarkably contemporary in the 20th century - it might almost be mistaken for a panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger...
...business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...