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Sixteen-year-old Cleopatra runs through the play like quicksilver-a kitten all cuddle and claws, still worlds away from Shakespeare's Serpent of Old Nile. Caesar, finding her a petulant child, leaves her a queen and woman, with a new authority and cruelty. But it is Caesar who really dominates the stage: a Caesar who is neither the image on a Roman coin nor the stern voice of the Roman Capitol, but a great and contradictory man molded into a peculiarly Shavian hero. Shaw's Caesar is much more the clement conqueror than the model for dictators...
Mason said the Society had asked MIT fraternities and foremen at the Eliot Bridge site, and had even tried to borrow the "Leviathan," the Harvard crew's Nile-type practice barge. "We couldn't even get a life-saver," he pined...
...first dam to be built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...
...will do more, Egyptians hope. Some seasons there is not enough rain in Ethiopia to send a proper flood down the Blue Nile. Then in the parched land, the crops dry up. In the long history of Egypt this disaster has often happened for several years in succession, causing serious famines. It probably happened during 'the "seven lean years" which allowed Joseph to speculate in grain and enslave the Egyptians for Pharaoh (Genesis...
...Egyptians hope that the new system of dams will eliminate this danger, by providing "century storage" of Nile water. The stored reserves should keep the Nile flowing through the worst succession of dry years...