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...Sudanese border to El Alamein in the north, is a series of underground reservoirs connecting the major oases. Egyptians refer to this as the "Second Nile," or, as it is officially called, "the New Valley." Electric power from Aswan will be sent to the desert and used to pump up the water and irrigate the land. In a test project, 100,000 transplanted Egyptians are now living in the Kharga Oasis at the southeastern end of the desert, where they successfully raise crops and livestock. One farmer, Mohammed Mahmud, happily told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn: "I used to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat Opens the Door | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...stretching their limbs when they leave the car, are purely visual delights. After notable failure in color filmmaking, Ray has returned to the traditional black-and-white frame. His compositional eye seems to have regained its earlier strength, whether the subject is a group of people or a gasoline pump...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Bourgeois Bengalis | 5/1/1974 | See Source »

Crimson prop Rich Whiting primed Harvard's pump with four points when he fell on a blocked kick in Princeton's end zone...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Rugby Club Tramples Princeton, 28-4 | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

Culled mostly from Harvard's three art museums, the Museum of Compara- ative Zoology and the John F. Kennedy Institute, the potpourri includes three priceless glass flowers that have not left Harvard since 1892, an 80-in. stuffed sailfish, a water pump bought by the university after a disastrous fire in 1764 and assorted Crimson football banners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Thank You from Harvard | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...ride our bikes up to a gas pump and buy two cents worth of gas. Then we'd go out in the woods and put it right up to our noses and," here he imitates a gasoline pump, one arm as the handle and the other as the spigot, eyes blinking and rolling upward like the gallon counter and mouth making the sound of the machine as it fills the tank, "Bong bong! Bong bong! Bong bong...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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