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...jammed-and never so racked by such raucous music. The 200 fans on stage had the most tranquil spot: they were behind the brass. But out in front, the louder it got, the better they liked it. And no band yet had outblown Stan Kenton's for sheer din...
...nine recognized sons of aging (77) Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, Imam of Yemen, in the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The Swords have frequently crossed each other, vying for succession to the black mattress with red cushions which is the Imam's couch of state in his capital, Sana. Yahya, who believes in one-man government, named his own successor-eldest son Ahmed, governor of Taiz province. But according to Yemenite tradition, a council of eleven elders should choose the new Imam. So the other sons...
Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
Later that night, the trumpeting din of elephants fighting aroused the sleeping zoo. The zoo director rushed to Chang's pit, found him attacking Mandjullah. On the floor he found Rietmann's dead body. This time there was no one to plead for Chang. At dawn the keepers' rifles cracked four times. Chang, the elephant with imagination, was dead...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...