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...leader of the 41st generation of the Hashemite family, founded by the Prophet Mohammed. For 37 generations the family was a slumbering bush-league dynasty. Then Feisal I (Feisal II's grandfather) fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...
...Tightwad! Next day Eleanor heaved an answering pie, a press release given out by the office of her lawyer, Louis Nizer.* Said Eleanor: "Those who have dealt with Mr. Rose throughout the years well know whether it is his clenched fist on a dollar or my alleged avarice which is responsible for the impasse . . . If he wants to find his real enemy, he need only look in the mirror . . . His present offer not to use his fraudulent affidavit, which has already been filed and communicated to all sorts of people, is like the act of a man who shoots somebody...
Rules of the Game. EPU's billion-dollar monthly turnover resembles nothing so much as an all-night poker game. When the cards were dealt in 1950, every player had a tidy little stack of EPUnits (one unit equals $1), distributed according to size. Iceland was low man with $15 million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote...
Anxious to get out to Chicago and the serious business of politicking, the nation's lawmakers chopped away furiously last week at the jungle of neglected legislation which had to be dealt with before the 82nd Congress could adjourn for the last time. Night after night, a small light under the statue on the Capitol dome burned brightly, indicating that Congress was at work. In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words:' "Without objection, so ordered...
From President Vargas down, Brazilians peppered their guest with searching questions, particularly about prospects for greater economic and technical aid. Acheson blandly denied that the U.S. ever assigned a lower priority to Latin American problems. "There are two separate problems to be dealt with at the same time," he told reporters. "One is the need of our allies in the front line, those fighting in Korea, in Indo-China, the needs of French, British and our own troops in Europe. Those needs must be met or there will be no front line. But... we must carry out our historic policy...