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...Some day, perhaps soon, we tribesmen will tire of being tired, and then we will all turn to the Brother of Allah." To the Qashqai (pronounced gosh guy) tribesman, the Brother of Allah is his rifle. The warning was uttered by tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (220 Ibs.), handsome Mohamed Nasser Khan, 42, Khan of Khans, leader of southern Iran's warlike Qashqai nomads. They have always resisted attempts by a weak central government in Teheran to manage their affairs...
...judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling the faithful to prayer (La Illaha Illa-Allah-There...
Last week Allah was good to him. Sixty thousand Parisians, the biggest sports crowd since the war, squeezed into Colombes Stadium to see Ben, the Black Pearl, and his fellow Frenchmen in red, white & blue outfits play the heavily favored English team. Ben stole the ball constantly, executed short delicate passes over English heads, did more work than any three teammates combined to beat England...
...Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
...Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent his Minister of Arab Affairs, patient Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, to win over Ibn Saud. Last month the equally patient potentate, who acts only on his own terms, accepted the protocol. Forthwith Farouk...