Word: safsaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egypt's diseased, half-hungry fellahin adored Safsaf, and with their support he became chief of the powerful Wafd Party and five times Premier of Egypt. Zouzou cashed in on the adoration. In the reign of Farouk the self-indulgent, she grew into a well-corseted, fur-and diamond-bearing woman of property...
...last February the young officers of Egypt's revolution hailed Zouzou into court on charges of corruption, and she was stripped of all she had amassed save a stone palace in Cairo's lovely Garden City, a black Cadillac-and Safsaf. Zouzou was put under house arrest with Safsaf, who is now 77. For pleasure-loving Zouzou, jail might have been better...
Zouzou stormed, swore, cried. A police captain, summoned, wrung his hands, rang his friends and knew not what to do. Safsaf got on the phone and asked to speak to his love. "Never," cried Zouzou. "I won't speak to him until he brings me my divorce. I'll never go back to that bald, blind, unmanly...
...great stone mansion in Garden City, Safsaf was lonely. He asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...
...last Zouzou let him in; family, doctors and lawyers soon followed and a parley ensued. Brokenheartedly, Safsaf promised a divorce, whereupon Zouzou coldly agreed to go back to her gilded cage in Garden City...