Word: aliyah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summer Splash. He had first met Princess Sabiha Fazilet on the French Riviera two years ago, when she was 14. They met again beside the Bosporus this summer. Taking his ease aboard the royal yacht Queen Aliyah, the young King found himself often in the company of buxom Princess Fazilet, whose ancestors were for centuries the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The tall, athletic girl towered over Feisal, but she soon took to wearing flat-heeled shoes, and she was undeniably handsome...
...ruler; Iraq is governed in Feisal's name by 38-year-old Regent Abdul Illah, the boy King's crafty, effeminate uncle). Weaned on a well-balanced formula of British manners and Arab morals (an English governess taught him etiquette in the mornings; Queen Mother Aliyah read Islamic literature in the evenings), swarthy Feisal grew up a toytown prince, boxed in by such old-fashioned playthings as a 3-ft.-long General Grant tank whose wheel chains were forged out of gold, and a miniature Hurricane fighter, built for him by R.A.F. mechanics. At 14, Feisal knotted...
...arrivals are herded into a former British army camp renamed Shaar Aliyah (Gate of Immigration), for two weeks or so of medical isolation. The heterogeneous immigrants stroll aimlessly: a gangling youth in a heavy blue ski suit that was fine for the weather he knew in Rumania will gawk at shriveled, turbaned old men clad in the pajama suits of North African Arabs; chattering old ladies from Hungary, clutching fur scarves, look incredulously on squatting North African women in long cotton shifts...
...Thousand Times Good-Night." In Cairo, Egypt, Aliyah Ibrahim got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband's passion for reading poetry aloud interfered with her sleep: "It is not worthwhile getting up in the middle of the night to listen to Shakespeare...
Because English weather did not agree with his ailing mother, Queen Aliyah, Iraq's sloe-eyed boy King, Feisal II, 15, decided to change schools, checked out of Harrow and flew home to sunny Baghdad to enter the Iraqi Military College...