Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boy of 15, he had seen assassins shoot down his grandfather, King Abdullah, before Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock; legend has it that the boy stood erect and defiant as the King's bodyguard fell to the ground in fright. As a lad of 16, he had seen his mad father, Crown Prince Talal, removed from the throne. At 18, slight, down-mustached Hussein became King of the impoverished desert kingdom of Jordan. Most of his country's people-the 900,000 Palestinians incorporated into his kingdom after Israel became a nation-plainly felt no loyalty...
...with Iraq shattered by the Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
...Jesse, now a Pepsi-Cola crate repairman, has already turned his crackly tenor loose on four soon-to-be-released sides of old cotton-pickin' tunes (sample: Swingin' in the Orchard). A critical admirer of the family's most agile sprout ("He is a good Christian boy, and he can do a lot better than rock 'n' roll"), Jesse stoutly declares that he isn't aiming to get ahead on another's fame: "I'm on my own and am trying to succeed...
...most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...
...medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter is usually...