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...Beset by hundreds of inspectors...
...Shah's court. His mother, a woman with a strong social conscience, took him with her on her visits to Najmieh Hospital, which she had founded in Teheran (and which Mossadeq still supports today). Outside the palace walls, young Mohammed found a troubled, poverty-stricken land beset by swarms of foreign adventurers and corrupted by the imperial court's mismanagement...
...downfall of Arky and Judge Greet is the subject of Little Men, Big World, a speedy tabloid novel. The mob is beset by two enemies: a big-city gang trying to muscle in, and a dull but startlingly honest police commissioner who is trying to clean up the town. In a flash-bang climax, the judge is killed by the rival mobsters, Arky avenges the murder in a downtown hotel, is caught by the cops, slips away, is caught again. In the end, facing the chair, he feels a sudden surge of relief, which may even be the first...
...Under arms: 697,000 men, 7 divisions; 150,000 of her troops are in Indo-China. Available to NATO: 3 divisions now, 15 by the end of 1952. Equipment: fair, but improving with U.S. help. Morale: uncertain-i.e., poor but could be made good; shot through with Communism, beset by uncertainties of revolving-door government-facts which Premier Pleven (see The Presidency) refuses to recognize publicly; anti-Communism could be solidified...
Hero Paul Lennox is strong on good works and good looks, A dynamic young fellow, he is modern enough to insist that a gymnasium and round-table marriage counseling are necessary supplements to his central message of God's grace. Yet Paul is beset by a corroding sense of failure. He feuds with an important parishioner, can't wholeheartedly accept the girl he loves, fails miserably as an example to his heavy-drinking young half brother. It takes most of the book and a crippling attack of polio to make Paul understand his failure in life...