Word: ares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The International Refugee Organization has on its hands 26,000 displaced specialists-teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists. Although their skills are desperately needed in many parts of the world, they have been battering vainly for months against immigration barriers. Last week I.R.O. had its first success in placing a large group...
On the western side of the Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass...
"In the 20th Century." Farouk's advisers are worried over the King's public flouting of the ancient command: "Thou shalt not usurp thy brother's betrothed." Even his sister Fawzia does not try to defend his action, but shrugs the story off with: "It must be...
"We Are One." Almost as soon as Soekarno arrived at the palace, a torrent of Indonesians surged through the gates onto the lawn. Others enthusiastically kicked the slats from, a wooden picket fence and poured in unchecked. In a matter of minutes, the sprawling, mile-wide Koningsplein in front of...
"We are one nation," cried Soekarno, "and we pray that we may live as a single free nation . . . We want to build a strong nation, prosperous and orderly ... I appeal to you all to show our hospitality to our foreign guests, including the Dutch." As Soekarno turned, walking between the...