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...Zouzou slammed down the phone, swept furiously out of the palace, got into the Cadillac and sped toward Alexandria at 75 m.p.h. Behind her, startled MPs phoned check points and organized pursuit. At the Kilometer 10 checkpoint, a scared soldier halted Zouzou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Four hours later, somewhat subdued, Zouzou agreed to ride back to Cairo but only in a police jeep. "The Cadillac belongs to my husband," she answered, "and I want no part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Pyramids. At police headquarters in Cairo, Zouzou announced that she wanted to be taken to the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. The cops shuddered: the Semiramis was full of tourists loaded with dollars who might not understand about Zouzou in her agitated state of mind. "Look, lady." pleaded a top cop, "you can't go to the Semiramis. Pick any place anywhere in Egypt, in the whole damn world for all we care. But please, please don't say the Semiramis." At 4 a.m. Zouzou capitulated; she would take a suite in a suburban hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...midday the police phone rang. It was Zouzou; she didn't like the hospital. With a groan, the police moved Zouzou to the Mena House, near the Pyramids, and installed her in room 35, the honeymooners' favorite. "At least there are not so many foreigners around," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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