Word: niles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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German Movie Director George Wilhelm Pabst, hired to restage Aïda, crammed three elephants, four camels, ten horses and a cow onstage, with 1,500 people, 2,000 Riviera palms, and a 53-ft. Egyptian statue. As a clincher, a navigable canal (representing the River Nile) stretched between the stage and the 30,000 onlookers. The singing, with Italy's current top Soprano Maria Callas as Aïda and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames, was first-rate...
...painter who amused himself by imagining the Pygmies of the upper Nile (opposite page, bottom) broke with tradition. Like many late Pompeian artists, he found a sketchy, exaggerated, caricaturing approach best suited to his age. His somewhat bloodthirsty and hurried cartoon seems remarkably contemporary in the 20th century - it might almost be mistaken for a panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger...
...business and set up his own. Other postwar Abboud projects: a $7,400,000, 300,000 tons-a-year nitrate fertilizer plant financed by an Export-Import Bank loan, the first in Egypt, and a half interest in the contracting of a $10 million hydroelectric project on the Nile...
...first, jumped into Heliopolis race track. "We have the means," cried Naguib, "to throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army moved last year against King Farouk, 101 guns boomed across the brooding Nile. Four hours later, a great crowd gathered with Naguib to hear the muezzin chant familiar verses from the Koran. Then, as the sun came up, they knelt in humility with their faces towards Mecca...
...exports were up one-third over last year. But the green young army officers of the RCC had no easy solution for Egypt's basic problem: overpopulation. Egypt's people, by doubling their number in the past 50 years, have made the narrow green belt along the Nile one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the inflammable subject of the Suez Canal, the young officers have frequently sunk to old-style rabble-rousing, only to show a welcome moderation at crucial moments. Naguib and his fellow officers have also shown themselves devout Moslems without creating...