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...Cairo bureau, one member has planned an expedition up the Nile in his 15-ft. sloop, another is looking forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through...
Walk up the Nile. "He repeats this ritual twice in the day's first prayer (at sunrise), four times in the second (at noon), four times in the third (mid-afternoon), three times in the fourth (sunset), four times in the fifth and last (about an hour and a half after sunset). The week's most important prayer is at noon on Friday, when Moslems fill the mosques to overflowing. Inside the mosques are fountains, at which the Moslem washes in a prescribed sequence: hands, mouth, nose, face, right arm, left arm, head, ears, right foot, left foot...
Died. Sir John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors-the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies...
Some of them, says Toynbee, migrated to the moist Sudan, where their descendants probably survive as the primitive tribes of Shilluk and Dinka. But others, responding to the challenge of desiccation, resolved to change their lives completely. The valley of the Nile was then an all but inaccessible jungle of rank reeds, the lair of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. To live at all under such conditions required an effort beyond any that such men had ever made. Through the centuries, they drained the swamps, felled the reeds, diked the Nile, laid out fields. This response, Toynbee believes, was the genesis...
...death to attend her on the journey. Each had the special tools of his trade so he could serve his mistress. Beside a sacrificed painter lay his paint pots. A boat-builder's skilled spirit hands would provide for the Queen's transportation on the Nile of the other world...