Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier. In office, Suhrawardy quickly shed his Nehru neutralism and his old Indian sympathies; instead, he supported Pakistan's membership in the U.S.-sponsored Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and the British-sponsored .Baghdad Pact, won the plaudits of Moslem Firsters when the U.N. made its strongest-yet condemnation of Nehru on Kashmir. In the touchy situation after Suez, he spoke up firmly to doubting Moslems on behalf of the Eisenhower Doctrine...
Like Perry Como and Red Skelton, Iraq's Strongman Premier Nuri asSaid believes in the custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after...
...city's four dailies have come and gone in the past two decades, Caen's lighthearted legend-doctoring has filled six newspaper columns a week since 1938, earned him the sobriquet "Mr. San Francisco." and poured over into five profitable books about the city he calls Baghdad-by-the-Bay. The latest, Herb Caen's Guide to San Francisco, had sold 20,240 copies by last week, and is one of the few local guidebooks in publishing history to have made the national bestseller list...
Topic A. Caen's Baghdad is essentially a mutual admiration society whose members never tire of hearing San Francisco's praises sung. "You go ten days without writing a column about how great the city is," says Caen, "and you start getting letters saying 'you don't love us any more.' " His most popular columns in the Examiner (circ. 246,186) are the periodic panegyrics he calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats...
...Covenanter. Commissioned a sublieutenant, Nuri rode back to Baghdad, slim, handsome in the mustache sprouted in Constantinople, and fiercely proud of his uniform. He became a platoon commander at a Persian border town, and fell in with Jafar al-Askari, a husky, bull-necked Arab a few years his senior. The two became fast friends, and in 1910, as one member of the family puts it, "they gave each other their sisters." Though in accordance with Arab custom Nuri was not introduced to his bride Naima till the wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri...