Word: abdallah
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Like any other new boy at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., dark-eyed, curly-haired Abdallah Lakfal, going on 14, bounced with excitement last week as the school year got under way. A sixth-former helped him settle in his dorm, showed him the chapel and local stores, escorted him to the gym, where he drew athletic equipment. Then "Abdie" took a series of physical examinations, visited the library, met his teachers and headmaster, the Rev. Matthew Warren, received his first homework assignment. But for the little boy from Casablanca it also meant something special: the start...
...felt a sentimental tie to his old school. So he decided to bring the two together. U.S. Information Service Officer Arthur A. Bardos handled the technical details, asked the Moulay Hassan school faculty to suggest a student for a St. Paul's scholarship. The faculty unanimously chose Abdallah...
Notable example: the textile-and-banking Jafets. currently headed by Vargas-Backer Ricardo Jafet. But many a Lebanese in Brazil is simply a backhands pots-and-pans trader. Of such, Brazilians are currently singing a popular samba : Hallah, hallah, hallah, Have pity on Abdallah; Up and down the hills he trots, Carrying his sample...
Next morning, Sultan Arafa assembled his courtiers and red-uniformed horse guards, mounted a noble white charger inherited from the deposed Sultan and started out for Sabbath prayers at the imperial mosque. Somebody was waiting for him. A young (28), high-strung house painter named Allal ben Abdallah had piloted his creaky model-A Ford through the crowds waiting to view the Sultan and parked it close to a wall of the mosque...
...Abdallah sat until the Sultan, shaded by a parasol and fanned by a long-handled fly sweeper, drew near. Ben Abdallah revved up the motor, threw the old roadster into gear and roared at 40 m.p.h. straight at the mounted Sultan. For a startled instant, the Sultan watched the oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife...