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...women, who had challenged the words of the Prophet, had traveled to Egypt by train and plane in search of emancipation. They were seated calmly, if a little self-consciously, in Cairo's ornate Royal Opera House. None wore the flowing charshaf (Moslem robe). Like Egypt's royal princesses, and other upper-class Moslem women, none hid her good looks behind a harem veil. Married delegates had discarded the Arabic word for wife aqila (the tethered one), in favor of qarina (partner). For some of the delegates this was the first congress their governments had ever allowed...
Because their lives are an unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...
...secret ambition engendered many months ago sent the battalion on the trail of one Ruth Fillipetti this week. Having been duly authorized by Anton de Hasse, Harvard professor of Foreign and Domestic Relations, we take some pride in announcing the winner in the Boston-wide search...
Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
...when Emil slashes to ribbons the portrait of his martyred anti-Nazi father, calls Leona a Jewish tramp, bullies a Polish boy and blackmails a little girl into lying about it, tries to force his uncle's desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck...