Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beirut last week flew a cosmopolitan group of businessmen with a daring mission. They were the directors of a new investment company called MIDEC -Middle East Industrial Development Projects Corp.-which represents capital from the U.S. and nine European countries. With field headquarters in Beirut, MIDEC's directors were looking for partners, and the partners they want are Arab businessmen who will set up and run their own enterprises, retaining majority ownership and control but getting help from MIDEC's capital and technical know-how. To old Middle East hands, the idea of Westerners joining in an Arab...
Effective Elixir. Maria's elixir had an instantaneous effect. They were married on June 24, 1954 in Beirut, while Stone was putting the finishing touches on his design for the $5,000,000 Hotel Phoenicia. Three days later, Stone lounged in his bathrobe on a balcony of the St. George Hotel, took a long look at the blue Mediterranean and the snow-capped mountains of Lebanon, and began his first sketch for the U.S. New Delhi embassy, a commission he had received from the U.S. State Department three months before. The sketch (see cut), done quickly on the corner...
...most stable of all Arab countries, with sturdier traditions of literacy, representative government, religious tolerance and international trade than any of its neighbors. But the announcement of the Syrian-Egyptian union and President Nasser's dramatic visit to Damascus-only a two-hour drive from Beirut-has had an explosive effect among the half of Lebanon's population who are Moslems. A delegation headed by ex-Premier Abdullah el Yafi, leader of the opposition, rushed to Damascus to call on Nasser and extend its congratulations. An estimated 100,000 Lebanese, about 10% of the little country...
...repairs will be made after arrival of your remittance. Assad Ibrahim." Serraj handed around photostats of three checks and deposit slips for $5,300,000 to show that the "building" was not without foundation. The third cable, said to have been sent by Ibrahim after he left Damascus for Beirut, was addressed to a former Syrian M.P. who had acted as a Damascus go-between: "Come immediately. Building fraudulent. Refused give us anything. Give money back to original owners. Our situation is dangerous. Umm Khalid is sick and angry and asks our immediate return...
Freed of the charge of association with what Nasser calls an "imperialist" pact, the new federation could become a rallying point for all Arabs. Wrote Beirut's L'Orient: "The question to examine is whether Iraq can better cooperate with the West inside the pact or by liberating herself from ties which handicap her action in the field of Arabs...