Word: iraqization
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Arriving in the U.S. for a five-week visit, his first, the boy King of Iraq, Feisal...
...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...
Country & People: 175,000 square miles, largely arid, and some 5,000,000 people, mostly living in diseased, ill-clothed, ill-fed poverty. The infant mortality rate is 500 per 1,000 births. Iraq is strategically important, with estimated oil reserves of 10.5 billion barrels. Needs honest government, land reform...
...Talal fell victim not to a plot but to schizophrenia, which grew steadily worse despite treatment in Switzerland. This week Jordan's Parliament sorrowfully deposed him. He is succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Hussein, a thin, introspective adolescent. Interesting coincidence : Hussein and his cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, studied at Harrow at the same time, will each rule a Hashemite kingdom at the same time, on reaching 18, next...
...tramping heavily on the seven-league boots of its No. 1 rival, Coca-Cola. Coke, first in the Middle Eastern market in 1945 with a plant in Cairo, cashed in because Moslems like sweet drinks, have religious restrictions against alcoholic beverages. Coke was a big seller from Cairo to Iraq when Pepsi opened a plant in Cairo, began selling all through the Middle East and Africa. Pepsi's sales were boosted by its bigger bottle and sweeter-than-Coke taste while bright young sales specialists were shipped to the area by Pepsi President Alfred N. Steele. Now in many...