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WHEN Cover Artist Robert Vickrey was assigned to paint the portrait of Morocco's Princess Aisha, he flew into Rabat with TIME Correspondent William McHale, his easel, paints and two fresh eggs. Vickrey paints in egg tempera, needs one egg yolk for each sitting, always carries a spare egg in case of emergency. At their hotel in Rabat, said McHale, "I asked the bartender for two fresh eggs for my friend." The bartender replied: "Your friend, he is a magician?" Said McHale: "No, he's a painter." Asked the bartender: "He paints eggs?" "No," said McHale, "he paints...
...many bad customs are attached to our society," she said, "how many prejudices are fastened on us. We must root out and reject them, and in that ambiance of modern culture to which present-day life leads and calls us irresistibly, it is essential that the women of Morocco participate ardently and usefully in the life of the nation, imitating in this respect their sisters of the East and West, whose great activity contributes to the welfare of their countries...
...French soldiers, roughly 36,000 Algerian terrorists, and 200,000 civilians. It is responsible, directly or indirectly for the fall of three French governments--Mendes-France in 1955, Mollet and Bourges-Manoury in 1957. Its problems have become the source of bad relations between the French and Morocco and Tunisia and between the French and the United States...
...requirement that she be of noble birth and a devout Moslem. An early attempt to announce his troth-to a five-year-old daughter of Egypt's King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year-old Feisal found the girl he wanted...
Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco...