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Hassan Fathy is an Egyptian architect whose life was completely changed in one moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...
...splendidly limned by Lillian Hellman in Another Part of the Forest and The Little Foxes. At the head is Big Daddy Pollitt, who has amassed a fortune of nearly $10-million, never stops bragging about his "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile," and is unaware he has terminal cancer. He loathes his wife, Big Mama, with whom his sex life has been no doublebed of roses...
...week he is being despised, cursed and rejected by millions of his people. The very next week he commands the praise of millions in a welcome that not even Julius Caesar could match in his visits to the banks of the Nile...
...making to his myriad activities. A transfixed TV audience in England last week saw Big Daddy explain the necessity of killing 3 spies, guerrillas and Israelis, give a detailed demonstration of military tactics, and dress down his Foreign Minister, -who, notes the commentator dryly, turned up dead in the Nile two weeks later. To those new to Big Daddy, French Director Barbet Schroeder's Autoportrait seemed to be an African rendering of Titus Andronicus. For three weeks last whiter, Schroeder and his crew tried to capture Big Daddy on film. Amin himself planned and supervised each...
...Palace, once the favorite residence of Egypt's Kings, where the President and his wife had a newly decorated wing for their use. Colored lights played on the shrubbery and exquisite Persian carpets covered the grass. Sadat gave Nixon Egypt's highest honor, the Collar of the Nile, in recognition of his efforts for peace. Kissinger got the second-ranking award, the Order of the Republic, and Sadat, knowing full well where the real power lay and careful of Nixon's sensitivities, pointed out that the Secretary had performed well "under the wise leadership of President Nixon...