Word: beiruters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began two years ago when the trading firm of Les Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi...
...jeeps arrived in Beirut and less than a week later, they were aboard an Italian freighter bound for Constanta, Rumania. One of the widespread army of Commerce Department informers spotted the 100 crates being transshipped and informed the U.S. Embassy, which wired Washington...
...senior member of Aramco's Arab staff, earning the phenomenal Arab salary of $150 a week, and considered himself a pal of the local police chief, the translator was bundled off to jail. Three days later, he and 36 other Palestinian Arabs were deported to Beirut without a hearing...
...Beirut, Lebanon Sir: I am still chuckling at Priestley's comments . . . John Boynton Priestley and I went to different schools in Bradford, Yorkshire ; you know, where the pudding comes from. His evaluation of all that religious conversion is as correct as it is shrewd and witty. I, too, know the "hunger for a show" of the British people-and why confine it to the British anyway? As for that Irish newspaper which said that Billy had taken Ireland by storm even in absentia: phooey! MAUD CHEGWIDDEN San Francisco Sir: If Graham goes for orange juice, the unpriestly Priestley...
Died. Msgr. Antoine Pierre Arida. 91, bearded patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient, spiritual leader of some 500,000 members of the Maronite rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Church's eight patriarchs, who rank just below the College of Cardinals; in Beirut, Lebanon...