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Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915. He moved on to London in 1922, studied and later taught Arabic, Hebrew and Persian at Cambridge. He once debated the case that the British educational system at Cambridge was insupportable "because it professed to educate a governing class...
Seven days after the triumphal signing, Nasser faced a cheering mob in Alexandria. As he rose to make his speech a man stood up in the audience and fired eight shots at him. Nasser remained standing and all shots missed. His first cry was, "Arrest that man." Then he stepped...
World War I: Enlisted as a cavalry private, he was wounded, later sent to Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Returned to the trenches with a Moroccan regiment, won his first Croix de Guerre (he now has three, embellished with 17 palms). Fought against the Riffian tribes of Abd...
Souls of Dead Miners. Duncan Emrich, whose parents were Congregationalist missionaries, was born in Turkey and lived in Istanbul until he was 16. He went to Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en...
Denver offered little that was stimulating in Emrich's hobby of Arabic but much in the field of folk music. Drinking in the splintery, bare saloons of the lonely valley towns, he heard and delighted in the hoarse old songs of the gold prospectors and the mining camps: