Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover, TIME noted that "to young King Hussein the complex intrigues of Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. The Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals." The rivals are still there; so is the intrigue. But the boy is now a man-of 21. See The Education of a King (FOREIGN NEWS) for how Hussein tackled his man-sized...
...finally brought to trial in Longview (pop. 38,900) for the "murder with malice" of the young Negro. Before a jury of twelve East Texans, all whites, his lawyers argued that Ross, who had had several beers, had not been bent on murder. Said one of them: "This boy wanted to scare somebody and keep the niggers and the whites from going to school together-now that's the truth about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney Ralph Prince, who let 15 months...
Hussein, a boy who became a man in the public enactment of his will for survival, had gambled all to keep his royal inheritance. He was fighting to hold his disintegrating country from crack-up -and last week, by guts, by guile and by fortune's turn, he was winning...
Hussein, born in 1935 in dusty Amman, became the King's favorite grandson, receiving a royal schooling in horsemanship and saber fighting, and accompanying the old monarch all over his desert realm. "My boy," said Abdullah. "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what you can from what you witness at my palace. Who knows? The time may come when you will replace me on the throne...
...British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage by the Chinese Communists. The two men took a four-hour boat ride across the Pearl