Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have not hesitated to use them for "pacifying" rebellious villages, they were always a threat to the Moroccan independence movement. One exception were the Tafilalet Berbers, led by Chief Addi ou Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi ou Bihi Governor of Tafilalet province, a vast domain between the Sahara desert and the Atlas mountains in southeast Morocco...
Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef (now grandly styled Sultan Mohammed V) was cruising in the Mediterranean last week when Addi learned that a new government appointed judge was on his way to Tafilalet. The judge arrived by air in Midelt, a mountain village built around an old red clay crenelated fortress in a cedar forest below the snow-capped Atlas peaks. Addi gave the signal, and some 3,000 Berber horsemen clad in white-and-brown burnooses swept down on Midelt. They quickly surrounded the fortress, captured the Rabat-appointed judge and 18 local policemen...
Competing with these hits are the works of other theater giants. A group of young players called the Shakespear-wrights, now in their third season, are staging a sprightly version of Twelfth Night. Two other 17th century comedies are playing to packed houses: Ben Jonson's bawdy Volpone and Molière's sophisticated The Misanthrope. Other hits: Sean O'Casey's rollicking comedy, Purple Dust, scheduled "indefinitely" at the Cherry Lane, a converted stable; Shoestring '57, a 30-skit musical review; and Me, Candido, an original drama by Walt Anderson about the flight...
...with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused to acknowledge it (TIME, Oct. 15)-degenerates noisily into a lot of Hechtic foolishness. For a couple of reels the leading comedian plays it, riot for goofaws, but for the quiet snickers he is really better at getting; yet in the last half...
...Ben Heckscher, No. 1 on the varsity squash team, advanced to the semi-finals of the Harry Cowles squash racquets tournament at the Harvard Club of New York last Saturday. If Heckscher wins his semi-final match this afternoon, he will probably face the tourney's top-seeded player, Henri Salaun, who is ranked No. 2 nationally. Salaun has won the tournament twice...