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...polo matches. To promote elegance, André refuses to allow even the biggest losers inside the Casino's Gilded Hall unless they are wearing evening clothes (black tie), once turned away heroic General Pierre Koenig. Explained an attendant: "Sorry, General, but orders are orders." Said sport-shirted Koenig: "Ah, yes. I understand orders...
...customer stopped at a Turkish newsstand and asked for a copy of a newspaper called Freedom. "We have no Freedom" said the news vendor. "Then," said the customer, "I'll take a copy of LIFE." "We have no LIFE either." "Ah, well," sighed the customer, "I might have known, for where there's no freedom, there can be no life...
...visualized God as "pure mind." It came to George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning, but I feel what she wants to say. She wants to say that everything . . . is not horror, but joy." This brings Wilson close, as he acknowledges, to Nietzsche's Superman, the man who can say: I accept everything...
Take up the White Man's burden, And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard-The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night...
...army commander is young King Hussein's young friend AH Abu Nuwar, 34. Able, articulate and British-educated, Lieut. Colonel Abu Nuwar was regarded as an ambitious intriguer by Glubb Pasha; he was packed off to Paris as military attache in 1954. Brought back by the King over Glubb's objections, Abu Nuwar became the leader of the free officers' group that got Glubb fired. Last week the King promoted Abu Nuwar to major general to preside over the 20,000-strong legion...