Word: alias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose Attorney General he had been. Undoubtedly, Justice Moody's views reflected to some extent the indignation of the intellectuals of that day with the invocation of the amendment by corporation officials in antitrust and rebate cases. The opinion continually belittles the sanctity of the privilege, observing inter alia, "It has no place in the jurisprudence of civilized and free countries outside the domain of the common...
...shop around for a likelier woman (under Moslem law, the King is entitled to four wives at the same time). Three weeks ago in Cairo, while Queen Fatima waited in a village 115 miles away, Idris married the bride that his Premier had picked for him: black-eyed Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum, a ripened Bedouin heiress of 37. Soon after the ceremony, firmly escorted by Fatima, the aged King departed for home, leaving his new Queen behind...
This week, to the roaring welcome of a 21-gun salute in Tripoli harbor, new Queen Alia will arrive in Libya to take her rightful place at Idris' side. The King's own family have blessed the marriage, and at this point, the word was that even Fatima feels much better about everything: she is pregnant again...
During the course of these amenities, a romance flowered between young Sultan and dark-eyed Alia El Solh, eldest of El Solh's daughters. But disillusionment set in. Alia, a Western-educated 22-year-old, learned to her chagrin that Sultan already had at least one other wife, two sons and four daughters. Sultan hired a private eye and discovered that his bride-to-be was a feminist agitator with a firm determination not to hide herself behind a veil and live in a harem. One month after old Ibn Saud went to his grave, the marriage plans were...
Last week it was all over. The matchmakers bowed out. Alia was back in her political science classes at the American University of Beirut. Sultan tended to his job of governing Riyadh and seemed a good bet to become Saudi Arabia's Minister of Agriculture. Both heaved great sighs of relief. Their families were disappointed, but also aware that times have changed in the Middle East...