Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloodless revolt led by a Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct. He is now variously reported to be in Beirut, Paris or Saudi Arabia, and is invariably accused of masterminding every plot against the regime...
Thus, in 1871, an American missionary named Daniel Bliss laid down the credo of the small college he had founded six years before on a hillside outside Beirut. A center of Christian culture in a largely Moslem world, the small college throve and burgeoned, in 1920 became the American University of Beirut, which is today the largest American university outside U.S. territory...
...affable, able administrator who in twelve years saw San Francisco State rise from a fading campus of 800 students to a prospering school of 9,200, new President Leonard is not only an effective money raiser, but also a born diplomat. "The American University of Beirut," said he at his inauguration, attended by Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, "will not engage in politics nor in indoctrination, but will be free to teach youth to examine and evaluate all ideas . . . One thing we know-that when students are thus educated, they can build nations of their own design. They...
Baalbek (July 25-Sept. i) offers the most exotic of the newer festivals, organized chiefly to show off the picturesque little town near Beirut, Lebanon, which boasts some of the best-preserved Roman ruins in existence. At festival time, Baalbek's streets are emptied of the sheep and goats usually being driven to market by Arab tribesmen, are filled instead with foreign cars. This year's highlights: Rome's Santa Cecilia orchestra, two nights of Lebanese dances and village songs. More dramatic than the music are the floodlit temples of Jupiter and Bacchus, which form a backdrop...
...Lebanon, pro-Nasser candidates met a humiliating defeat at the hands of the pro-Western forces of President Camille Chamoun and his Prime Minister Sami Solh (see below). The day had passed when word from Cairo could bring mobs into the streets of Beirut and make governments quail. Instead. Lebanon felt confident enough to brusquely deport the bureau chief of Nasser's propaganda apparatus, Middle East News...