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...habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick up his date, stayed on to impress the Secretary with his earnest concern for his poor country. Dulles asked permission to visit some of the refugee camps; Jordan security officers refused, explaining: "We're not taking any chances." ¶General Adib Shishekly, boss of Syria, the fourth stop, seemed...
...kaleidoscopic series of case histories, a gallery of probationers, ranging from the wicked to the underprivileged and mentally defective, are pictured in predicaments ranging from comedy to tragedy. A few of the excessive characters: a young hoodlum (Harry Fowler) and a delinquent teen-ager (Joan Collins) who fall in love with each other; a drunken society girl (Ursula Howells); an old lady (Katie Johnson) who suffers from the delusion that her cats are being poisoned; a faded vaudeville star (Ada Reeve) living on her memories and press clippings...
...Blundell's own farm, the Mau Mau oath administrators arrived one night at the huts, tortured several of his Kikuyu into taking the oath. The victims were beaten almost to death, and half-strangled. Only one, a sobbing teen-ager dared confide in Blundell what had happened. And the chief oath administrator was a well-dressed, well-educated young Kikuyu whom the Blundells had fully trusted...
...first time Tiger got a look at his wife was when they were getting married. As the ceremonial sheet was thrown over them, he raised her veil to sneak a glimpse and saw a teen-ager with "black, sad eyes, long hair, undeveloped breasts." Tiger was only 16 himself...
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. How eight Jews escaped the Gestapo for two years by hiding in an Amsterdam office building, recorded in the memorable journal of a teen-ager (TIME, June...