Word: sahara
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...modification of the previous U.S. stand is reportedly favored by Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, who found some support for his position in the disclosure last week that the U.S. had clearly detected an underground nuclear test by France on May 1 in the Hoggar Mountains of the southeastern Sahara, more than 5,000 miles away...
...generations of reading romantics, the Legion is inextricably linked with flying clouds of Touareg horsemen, toy-soldier forts in the midst of the Sahara, and nobly born Englishmen hiding their mysterious pasts under assumed names. To career soldiers, the Legion is one of the world's few elite organizations, comparable to the U.S. Marines and Britain's Brigade of Guards. To its own members (over the years the majority have been German or Slav), the Legion is an unparalleled string of battles, from Constantine in 1837 to Sebastopol, Magenta, the Somme, Verdun, Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Cassino, Dienbienphu...
...many Algerian towns, Moslems have stopped patronizing Jewish-owned movie houses. In the streets of Djelfa, Moslem children chant: "Ben-Gurion to the gallows, Ben Bella to the palace." In the last 18 months, entire communities of Arabized Jews from the Sahara, whose speech and dress are indistinguishable from their Moslem neighbors, have left the country...
...place was a little bit of Las Vegas, but without any gambling tables yet, and just two minutes from Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A salmagundi of Italian marble, Japanese carpet, matched rosewood, Hawaiian monkeypod wood, gold foil and tropical fish, the Sahara Inn is like a movie set for a dream sequence in a musical starring George Jessel and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Complete with boot-shaped swimming pool, fully grown palm trees and a still uncompleted 1,400-seat auditorium, it cost $10.8 million, and is staffed with waitresses appropriately undressed...
...room called The Sultan's Table has a mosquelike dome, a 25-foot "grape tree" (from which wafts the artificial fragrance of grapes), and ten strolling violinists. "I wanted them to play Stradivaris," said Sahara's Host Manny Skar, who was once convicted of burglary, "but my insurance wouldn't cover it." Manny is aggrieved that local newspapers have been digging up his past. "It is callous and unkind to repeatedly allude to my mistakes of long ago. Some of the people whom I know may not be entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial...