Word: bey
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SYRIA (pop. 3,227,000): another slice of Ottoman Turkey mandated to France after World War I; republic, completely independent since 1946. Head of state: President HASHIM BEY ATASSI, 85. Real boss: Colonel ADIB SHISHAKLI who seized power in a coup late in 1949. Army: 25,000, one armored brigade, French equipment, weak staff. Militant member of the Arab League...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
...when the country celebrates with gladness and joy the glorious anniversary of the royal birth, there took place by the grace of God the betrothal of our well-beloved Sovereign with the descendant of an illustrious and noble family, Miss Narriman Hanem, daughter of the late Hussein Fahmy Sadek Bey...
Powder & Righteousness. India's Sir Benegal and Egypt's Fawzi Bey had still not heard from their governments. At 5:10 the meeting was adjourned to give them a chance to try again. A reporter walked to the horseshoe, picked up Tsiang's fascinating doodle and got a Chinese journalist to translate it. Tsiang had drawn what was on his mind. The characters read: "burning, powder, ten, black, white." Then he added another "powder" and finished off with the character for "righteousness...
...favor, please raise your right hand." When the hands went up they showed seven votes (Britain, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, U.S.) for; Yugoslavia against; India and Egypt not voting. (Later, India voted for. The government of Egypt's fat, foolish King Farouk instructed Fawzi Bey to vote against...