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...acres in the fertile Humboldt River country and federal grazing rights on a million acres more. He owns 11,000 subsidiary acres in California. His 14,000 cattle make him one of the state's biggest stockmen. His S-Bar-B, Quilici-Biltz and Nevada Nile ranches make him one of its biggest crop producers. And restless Entrepreneur Biltz keeps his fingers in dozens of other likely financial enterprises, from shipping to housing developments all over...
Because of "all the things he did to me," Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal, a onetime favorite of ex-King Farouk, chucked her husband of 18 months, Houston Real-Estate Heir Sheppard ("Abdullah") King III, and flew back to Cairo. Abdullah, flourishing a telegram ("I shall be praying for you") from Evangelist Billy Graham, followed. After truce talks in her lawyer's office, Abdullah emerged to announce their reconciliation. He had made "concessions," because "show business is in Samia's blood." From now on, he said, it would be all right...
...story, of course, concerns Harry Faversham and his heroic victory over both the Fuzzy Wuzzies and the Nile to prove to his comrades and the general's daughter that he is no coward. In the course of his adventures he saves all those who doubted him, General Kitchener and a stockade full of prisoners left over from the last British campaign. At the close of the movie, there is the further promise that he will save a rotting old estate from ruin and emancipate the peasants his battle-crazy ancestors have neglected...
...Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps from the book as Miss Harris sweeps on to the stage with a garish pink scarf, a long cigarette holder, and delicious dreams of floating down the Nile with "sensual Arabs watching from the tops of pyramids...
...Arabs. Half an hour after the vote, the Bonn government announced resumption of economic talks with Egypt, and added that a team of German engineers had just arrived in Cairo to survey the possibility of building the world's largest power and irrigation dam on the Nile. Vital statistics: a dam. 42 miles long, to cost $286 million and to take 10 to 15 years to build, which would increase Egypt's arable land by 40%, help solve its water problem for 200 years...