Word: zouzou
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
...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...
...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...