Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset. "There is no going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
Once Egypt's troops were all in place, facing some 30,000 Israeli troops across the border, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram began the process of face saving short of armed conflict. It announced that with its buildup Egypt had "reached its objectives" and felt "compelled at this stage to stop at what it has accomplished so far, even if this means that we wait to receive a blow from Israel...
Tooth & Nose. Their audience is al most entirely girls. Brothers and boy friends mostly stick to Mad, car magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...
...Religions," which approvingly cited the common bonds of Islam and Christianity-Moslems, for example, venerate Jesus as a prophet. The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions created a special section to encourage dialogue with Islam, and Vienna's ecumenical-minded Franziskus Cardinal Konig has lectured at Al Azhar University in Cairo. At Baghdad's Al Hikma University, Jesuits are opening an institute for the study of Islamic culture...
Crimson two-miler Jim Baker may not receive a victory as a homecoming present. Al Altman of Oxford is the South African record holder at three miles and would be a sure bet in the two mile. If Alman runs the mile, he will have to battle both Shaw and Yale's 4:08 miler, Steve Bittner...