Word: zouzou
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...sloe-eyed Zeinab al Wakil, then 24, gazed into the walleyes of Mustafa Nahas, then 60 and fairly tingling with romance, and they were married. He called her Zouzou. she called him Safsaf...
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...
Last month Zouzou asked permission to quit hot Cairo for the Alexandria seashore...
Riding Alone. Last week Zouzou tried again. She agreed to take her husband with her, but could she just make an advance trip to Alexandria to rent an apartment? Sure, the commandant said, but take along a soldier guard. "Send him in a jeep," Zouzou said over the phone. "Can't spare a jeep," the officer replied. "Why can't he ride up in front in the Cadillac with the chauffeur?" "Never," said Zouzou. "I always ride in front with the chauffeur." The commandant waited. O.K., said Zouzou, "if the government is so tightfisted, you can send...