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...that the Gezira needs to make it the most green and pleasant land in all of the Sudan is water. Because of the area's gentle slope, engineers have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan...
...Duce's shade in Mussolini, a fast-moving half hour on Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
...only structure not razed to ramp level by the church builders. As Constantine's architects did 150 years later, the builders of the Aedicula had evidently gone to considerable trouble to place the shrine exactly where they wanted it, nested in the exterior wall of a sloping corridor, the Clivus (meaning slope). The authors' theory is that, while laying this wall (called the Red Wall) in the area where St. Peter was known to have been buried, the builders found what was believed to be his grave, and the reigning Pope (probably Anicetus) ordered that a shrine...
...still has no official standing in the U.S.L.T.A. But now none of that matters. For that Gibson girl has finally whipped the one opponent that could keep her down: her own self-doubt and defensive truculence. At 30, an age when most athletes have eased over to the far slope of their careers, Althea has begun the last, steep climb...
...Mahendra issued a royal decree: the new Prime Minister of Nepal is Dr. Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors in the two most populous nations in the world, the King's choice was of major significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...