Word: morocco
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...weeks after his gift subscription to TIME began, a Marine sergeant stationed at the U.S. consulate in Rabat, French Morocco, got a phone call. At first he thought it was a practical joke. Said the voice on the wire: "My name is Paul Perret. I'm from TIME. and I'd like to know whether your magazine has been getting to you when it should...
Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
...soft-lighted corners of El Morocco, or in the sun of Southampton Beach, the talk grows nostalgic and just a little pained when someone mentions Angier Biddle Duke. "Somehow," a handsome young person will say, "I always expected something like this from Angie...
Ambassador to El Salvador. There, to the vast astonishment of Southampton, El Morocco and the Department of State, he has proved himself one of the best am bassadors the U.S. has ever sent to Latin America...
...worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more than half a dozen white men had done by 1882. After eleven months and as many hairbreadth escapes, he came out, having mapped 1,100 square miles of previously unexplored territory...