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Westerners are apt to prefer the lively grace of Greek art to the detachment and restraint of the Egyptian, but some Greeks preferred the Nile product. "Long ago," wrote Plato in the Laws, the Egyptians recognized that "their young citizens must be habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed, and exhibited the patterns of them in their temples; and no ... artist is allowed to innovate upon them . . ." Plato exaggerated...
...writhes and steps from an "oriental dance" for the assembled press. Wrote one reporter: "Her midriff rolled in a slow rhythm, her jet black eyes shot stars and she flashed the whitest teeth in the Middle East." For Farouk she had a special number, "The Bride of the Nile," which (said the newsman) "has a romantic beginning, a tragic finale and, as Samia does it, a restless middle...
Fogg Museum will be the American headquarters of a new center for the study of Nile River civilizations. The center will open in Cairo early...
...Shoes in Cairo. "Cacoola," as it is locally known, was flooding Egypt like a second life-giving Nile. Egyptians, barred by Moslem law from alcoholic refreshments, used to buy sickly sweet, dirty concoctions from street vendors. Now they are enthusiastically consuming nearly 350 million cool, clean Cokes a year. Barely five years after Cacoola appeared in Egypt, the country is dotted with shiny red coolers, many of them presided over by Egypt's oldtime ice merchants who, thanks to the raised living standard caused by this minor economic revolution, now wear shoes for the first time in human memory...
...accepting aid from our friends in the U.S. we should be handing over equipment in this way." Major Tufton Beamish quoted the 1920 prophecy of Stalin: "England's back will be broken, not on the banks of the Thames, but on the Yangtze, the Ganges and the Nile...