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...Jordan, Beirut Bureau Chief John Mecklin found himself circling over Amman in a plane piloted by King Hussein (see COVER) and preparing for a crash landing. With the nosewheel jammed, the young King flew round and round for 20 minutes, fiddling with the controls before he made a rough landing...
Back over the Amman airport, the plane's nose wheel stuck in the well. For 20 minutes Hussein circled the field, waggling the wings to try to shake the wheel down into position, was finally advised from the ground to use an emergency bottle of compressed air, which slammed the wheel into place with a shock that shook the plane like an explosion. Says the King airily: "All this worry about my flying is silly. I've taken off from the desert at night by the lights of automobile head lamps. I've flown with overweight loads...
...three days Jordanians, many of them Palestinian refugees who rioted so destructively last December, danced in Amman's streets. When the young King drove through the capital after visiting his mother's palace, citizens stopped his Mercedes and crowded to shake his hand. Later, speaking from his balcony, Hussein pledged that his first goal will be to regain Arab rights in Palestine...
Born. To King Hussein of Jordan, 20, and Cambridge-educated Queen Sherifa Dina Abdul Hamid el-Aoun, 26, onetime lecturer in English literature at Cairo University: their first child, a daughter; in Amman. Weight...
...Amman a crowd of 1,000 stoned and burned the U.S. Point Four office. Twice they stormed the Philadelphia Hotel, where several U.S. families had taken refuge, but they were driven back from the lobby. They also fired a British bank and-apparently because it had been built with U.S. Point Four funds-the government's new Department of Health Building. At Ajlun, 30 miles to the north, the hero was Baptist Missionary Lloyd Lovegren of Birmingham, Ala., who talked a mob that had already burned two mission buildings out of putting his hospital to the match. The doctor...