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...visitor to Greater Miami who wanted to be hypnotized could be, at the Svengali Club; he could determine his destiny through the auspices of a modest "life reader" ("I don't claim to do miracles") named Madame Avon; he could see clumsy girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only...
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser received a visitor who, by wide repute, was a purveyor of quaint and useless notions. His claim: he had solved the problem that for 7,000 years had resisted solution, the taming of the Nile. Nasser called in a trusted engineer, who said, "The man's crazy." "That may be," Egypt's new young boss replied, "but don't come back until you're sure." The crazy idea was to build a dam barely 300 feet high which would back up the Nile's waters for 400 miles...
Since the Nile drops an average of only six inches per mile, Nasser's not-so-crazy visitor saw that one big dam would do much to meet the nation's needs...
...Washington's "good music" Radio Sta tion WGMS beamed out the world pre miere of a recording made in the U.S. by a recent visitor, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels (TIME, Oct. 17). On hand as the disk's jockey: Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, a persistent advocate of U.S. -Soviet cultural exchanges ever since his 8,000-mile jaunt about the U.S.S.R...
...visitor, who has not seen a winning varsity five since 1946, cannot be too optimistic about the 1955-56 edition. The team lost through graduation its best rebounder Dick Manning and its top floor man, Roger Bulger...