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...Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed. Now, on his Magnavox portable he soaks up eleven hours a day. "Everything's fine with TV" he beams, "except the blasted commercials." He's not exactly sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Habit | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Arabs rallied behind the Nationalist Party, nominally led by Ali Muhsin Barwani, 42, a quiet, devout dreamer. But its real leader is militant Abdulrahman Mohammed, nicknamed Babu, a highly intelligent Communist who makes flying trips to Prague and Moscow, has taken the party from a slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zanzibar: Violence Among the Cloves | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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