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There were trips to a textile factory, Luxor and the Aswan High Dam. There was a state banquet at which Ulbricht and Nasser exchanged their countries' highest awards. To Nasser went East Germany's Order of the Grand Golden Star for International Friendship, to Ulbricht went Egypt's Great Collar of the Order of the Nile-and, to Ulbricht's wife Lotte, the Great Collar of the Order of Perfection...
...steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went scouting for some, he wound up three feet deep, Jeep and all, in an icy marsh. The scene will be tried again next winter-farther north...
...Senator Fulbright [Jan. 22] was right about Egypt's Aswan Dam, he was right about the Bay of Pigs, he was right about the Congo, and his views about Viet Nam seem to be most realistic. He certainly is a great Senator, with great political insight and human compassion...
Belmondo plays a. bass fiddle until Moreau, his former wife, lures him into a role as confidence man. Her goal is to set up a double swindle that will avenge her dead father, whose career was ruined 20 years earlier when he built a dam of rather flimsy concrete supplied by unscrupulous partners. On an offshore island, the first victim is soon shelling out 40 million francs for rights to a sandy beach he already owns. Then, in sunny Nice, Partner No. 2 (Gert Frobe, the Goldfinger of Goldfinger) finds himself jowl-deep in violence, sham infidelity, fixed races...
...graphite moderator and several hundred pounds of uranium fuel turned to vapor by temperatures above 8,000°F., roughly the same as the surface of the sun. For a fraction of a second before it evaporated, the reactor had generated millions of times as much energy as Hoover Dam...