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Never one to conceal her charms behind the veils of maidenly Moslem modesty, pretty Princess Aisha, 26, the French-educated eldest daughter of King Mohammed V of Morocco, is an ardent champion of women's rights in Islam, an area where a lot of pioneering remains to be done on the subject. Last week she carried her fight to Damascus, and proved herself as delectable an agitator as ever made an Arab forget John Foster Dulles. Syria, which had other things to worry about, feted her all week, put her up in a palace, provided her with a Cadillac...
Maine's U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith is in close touch with U.S. military reserve programs. Commissioned after World War II, she is now, at 59, a lieutenant colonel in the WAF reserve. Her administrative assistant, William C. Lewis Jr., is an ardent Air Force reservist ("about 90 days' " training in the past twelve months). He was passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...third generation of Lutheran pastors in his family (his son is pastor of St. Philip's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn), Dr. Fry, 56, is a Yankee fan, an ardent Democrat, and a purposeful pinochle player-he has frequently trounced the Archbishop of Canterbury. Regarded as one of the ablest administrators in Protestantism, buoyant Dr. Fry is usually somewhere else in the world than his Manhattan office (which used to be J. P. Morgan's Madison Avenue mansion) or his house in suburban New Rochelle. In the last two years he has circled the globe, visited Russia, India, Australia...
Hotheaded partisans of Rebel Fidel Castro tried to close down the Cuban economy last week, and quickly discovered that well-paid workers do not become ardent revolutionaries. For six days, workers in pro-rebel Santiago de Cuba held firmly to their spontaneous general strike (TIME, Aug. 12). then gradually drifted back to their jobs. Most Havana workers, making near-record wages, ignored the call. Going up were four new skyscraper hotels. A new superhighway was snaking west from the city along the sea front, and underneath Havana Bay, a 20-lane tunnel needed only five more months of work before...
...escaped by "forming a coterie of informal favorites, to whom she gave rich rewards and positions and with whom she danced, sported and gossiped, openly mocking the established grandees of Versailles. With young Axel Fersen, officer son of a Swedish general, she began an ardent love affair that lasted with mutual devotion to her dying day. Few details of their intimacy have survived, but of the truth of the romance, for a long time disputed, Castelot leaves no doubt...