Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When at last a doctor was permitted on board, he sent two crewmen back to Greece on the verge of mental collapse. Meanwhile, the Greek captain was hauled off to Alexandria for grilling by the Egyptian War Ministry. Soon after his return to his ship, he got his orders to sail-not onward, but back to Haifa...
PERSONALITY: Brown-haired, blue-eyed, meditative, Burney is married (two children), likes to read American history, plays golf in the mid-80s, enjoys swimming with his family at the pool of their apartment 'house in Alexandria, Va. An active joiner of medical organizations, he enjoys working with Boy Scout groups, helps them in health and safety work...
While the West stammered. Nasser rode in triumph from Alexandria to Cairo, getting a hero's welcome at every stop. This was his big moment: bigger than his seizure of power, his expulsion of Farouk, his kicking out the British. Brother Arab nations cheered him too. Nasser has done it again, they said. Arab politicians are apt to consider a well-delivered jab at the West a more statesmanlike act than running one's economy properly...
...addition the Foundation appointed Charles H. Hale, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle; Burnell A. Heinecke, reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times; John C. Obert, city editor of the Park Region Echo in Alexandria, Minn.; Frederick W. Roevekamp, reporter on the Christian Science Monitor; and Frederick W. Pillsbury '50, editorial writer on the Boston Herald...
...good-will tour abroad. Her enthusiasm plus the responsibility of representing her country did wonders for her often erratic game. From Rangoon to Stockholm her concentration never wa vered. Only Angela Mortimer had the Indian sign on her (in the Scandinavian indoor, the Egyptian international and the Alexandria finals). But last week Althea clipped the wings of Angela, too. Uncertain footwork and an unreliable backhand are large faults to be covered up, even by Althea's grim determination. But so far Althea has managed. When she turns up at Wimbledon next month, her determination will have taken...