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...Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus, which boasts that it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, and is as notable for its strikingly modern apartments as its ancient bazaars and narrow alleys...
...bank experiences. He was born in Cambridge, and has remained here all of his 65 years. When he first began work as a teller, he also taught piano, and though he admits "I don't think I could play a five finger scale now," Lindberg still sings with the Aleppo Temple Shirne Chanters. Since he is a bachelor, Masonry is his major hobby, and h e has been a York Rite Mason for 38 years...
...downing a highball or two. He was discouraged: everything seemed to be going wrong. For four years he had tried to unify and stabilize Syria, but the country was riddled with disaffection and on the edge of revolt. At that very hour, armed units patrolled the streets of Horns, Aleppo, and Damascus itself, and soldiers battled sullen Druze tribesmen in the remote mountainous province of Jebel Druze...
Thereafter Dahish was not long for Lebanon. Police nabbed him, beat him up, whisked him across the mountains to Aleppo in Syria. The battered hypnotist went off to live quietly in the little village of Kamishli in the Jezireh, on the upper reaches of the Euphrates...
...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...