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Armored Priest. Nevertheless, the Dweihis are as reverent as their neighbors, and the present hero of the clan is a handsome, burly, young (35) Maronite priest named Simaan, who usually totes a large pistol on his clerical rounds, and seldom travels without an escort of four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice...
...boulevardier, last week bagged a pride of social lions. The catch at Fairbanks' coming-out party for his 17-year-old daughter Daphne: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and Princess Margaret with a new and eminently eligible beau, 23-year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks and his wife are divorced) invitation to tea at Ascot on the sacrosanct sod of the Queen's Lawn...
...return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...
...principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
Colonel Sinnott, beardless, is depicted in the painting as the youngest of the three escort horsemen in the background. The colonel was riding next to the general when Jackson was accidentally shot, and was the one who went for the doctor...