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Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
...complete lack of affectation have won everybody." Back home the New York World-Telegram and Sun agreed: "After some of the dames who've represented American womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch . . . We do not want Europeans to think all our women do is go around marrying Moslem princes and staging big maternity exhibitions, like Rita [Hayworth] did. Nor do we wish our dolls generally to get a reputation for flirting with bullfighters, as Ava [Gardner...
Ambassador Peurifoy, in the U.S. on a visit, hastily flew back to Athens, tried again to patch up the quarrel between the country's two foremost men. There was danger that, without Papagos, the U.S.-trained-and-equipped Greek army-an important weapon in the West's defenses against Red aggression-might fall apart...
Strips of paper draped across a patch of ground near the South Korean town of Chunchon last week spelled out the words, "P.O.W.s-19-rescue." An Air Force observer spotted the sign and radioed an armored U.S. task unit. A short while later, three tanks rolled up to Chunchon to rescue 18 marines and a G.I. who were captured last December in fighting at Changjin Reservoir. The 19 had spent the last six months being herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none...
...argue that, but your April 30 cover story on MacArthur is the epitome in reporting and intelligent analysis. Your presentation of the selfish political angles as well as the sound and honest elements of the whole affair is like a pine tree in a cotton patch . . . You have become the weight of balance on the scale of sensible opinion...