Word: niles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Womb to Tomb. For the tourist in trouble, American Express is a seasoned troubleshooter, will handle just about every imaginable disaster between womb and tomb. When an Egyptologist died abroad, she left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York...
...alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming broadcasts in Swahili to Kenya (where it supported the Mau Mau), Somaliland and Uganda. Explained the Voice: "Egypt's geographical position requires her to work for the liberation of the African continent from all forms of imperialism." It helped get Glubb fired...
Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
...mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient today to sustain the leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser...
...case in point was the Aswan Dam, which would harness the Nile, provide the parched areas of Egypt with the largest man-made reservoir in the world (and, in fact, do as much for the Egyptian economy as all public works since 1900 have done for the U.S. economy). Highlights of the briefing...