Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arose over the fanciest deal struck in a lifetime of shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas and a luxurious sports club and race track to provide him the pleasures-denied...
...Egyptians blandly explained that they had accepted Smouha's definition of his Alexandria holdings as farm land-and listed it for expropriation at his own low tax valuation of $2,800,000. Egypt's $87 million for expropriated lands is already earmarked for other British claimants; furthermore, Smouha's solicitors were pressing a market-value claim of $30 million. Britain faced the prospect of having to pay for Nasser's single biggest expropriation of British landholdings out of its own resources. "Hoodwinked in a deal that had all the elements of the Middle East bazaar business...
...Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...
...should've brought my camera," drawled a gangling Virginia youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...
Even as U.S. Dist. Judge John Paul issued a Feb. 18 desegregation order for the reopening of closed Warren High at Front Royal, the city of Alexandria, 50 miles to the east, held racially mixed classes in three schools for the first time...