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Joel Cohen will test his foot for the first time since he broke it two months ago. If he can regain his indoor form, the track team could be well-nigh un-beatable, for it gained its biggest victories without...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

...young King sidestepped one trap, but a hectic trip through his country reminded him of another. Crossing the River Jordan, the King was almost hysterically received by his ex-Palestinian subjects. Throngs of refugees, who have been waiting ever since the 1949 armistice for a new war to regain their lost possessions, crowded round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Traps & Transfers | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...from his shrieking worshipers, who whirled him from his car and started to carry him off. Arriving at the ancient hill town of Nablus, where Jesus once talked by the well with the adulterous woman of Samaria, the King said what the audience had come to hear: "We shall regain what was lost of our fatherland, with God's help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Traps & Transfers | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before him. Now young King Hussein cried to cheering mobs: "I pray God will help us regain our stolen rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Old Order Crumbles | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...destructively last December, danced in Amman's streets. When the young King drove through the capital after visiting his mother's palace, citizens stopped his Mercedes and crowded to shake his hand. Later, speaking from his balcony, Hussein pledged that his first goal will be to regain Arab rights in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Passing of the Proconsul | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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