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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Rather than Haverford being "a sort of pocket Harvard," as you state, Harvard has long been a sort of gargantuan Haverford...
Nasser's ambitions are becoming clearer. Surrounding Israel on two sides, he would like to close the circle by creating a sort of provisional Palestine regime in the area now part of Jordan. The Palestine refugee movement, if noisy, has been ineffectual since the Arabs were beaten by Israel in 1949. Nasser wants to purge it of discredited oldtimers and replace them with a group of young militants who would stir up trouble as the rebel F.L.N. leaders do for Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown...
...journalist for 53 years, Yalman to the end refused to be humbled. "This sort of thing has happened to me before," wrote Yalman, who has been imprisoned twice before, gunned down once by an assassin, in a farewell to his readers. "But I am grateful to the Almighty to have given me the opportunity to join the ranks of those ready to endure a sacrifice for the sake of country and profession. I am getting old now; my blood pressure is high, my heart doesn't work properly. In spite of the strength of my will, these troubles...
Parton and his colleagues, among them Author-Historian Bruce (Grant Moves South) Catton and Joseph J. Thorndike Jr., onetime managing editor of LIFE, are busily hatching plans to make their sort of publishing even more successful. Last fall they branched out into television as advisers on a special series of hour-long historical dramas, have helped produce the pilot film of a half-hour TV series on the Civil...
...every night like Halloween, inhabited by people who are most often seen on calendars. Whatever the charm of Greenwillow the novel, the play is as vague in its storytelling as in its geography. It offers lovers but no proper love story, devils but no improper temptations, and the sort of artificially flavored language that tries to be folk poetry but turns out as horrible prose. Doubtless some people will think it delightful, but anyone with memories of a J. M. Synge must find its whimsies bogus, while people with memories of a J. M. Barrie should find its cuteness grim...