Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only educational institution which offers summer courses for American students outside the continents of Europe and America is the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Courses for undergraduates include Arabic language, philosophy, and culture...
...Jordan, Beirut Bureau Chief John Mecklin found himself circling over Amman in a plane piloted by King Hussein (see COVER) and preparing for a crash landing. With the nosewheel jammed, the young King flew round and round for 20 minutes, fiddling with the controls before he made a rough landing...
...sunny day last September, in the two cars, one painted light blue for Cambridge, one dark blue for Oxford, the adventurers took off. Eastward they drove to Paris, Vienna, Belgrade and on to Beirut, Lebanon, where they camped for a week in a girls' school, temporarily vacant. "By this time," said Cowell, "we were becoming expert in the roving life. We achieved fabulous success at wheedling sleeping places." Often, on country roads they had simply set up their cots under the stars and slept where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such...
Salvator Arnita, who heads the music department at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, is one student who considers his own situation a special case. An organist and composer who has previously made several European trips, Arnita hopes to pick up additional experience by auditing the courses of several music professors...
...thread of reality from the snarl of events in the Near East, an area of special interest to me since my wartime years there with the Office of War Information. Monica's beat is Israel alone. The nearby countries, including the Arab states, are covered by our Beirut Bureau, headed by Keith "Israel," Monica writes, "is a small country where 5,000 people buy TIME and a far greater number read it. This means that almost everyone I meet, from taxi driver to government official, knows exactly what has appeared in the magazine, has most decided views...