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...wealth of the Arab world glitters in Beirut, but the citadel of Arab finance is an undistinguished grey-walled building in Amman on the edge of the Jordan desert. It is the Arab Bank, the first as well as the largest Arab-owned bank. Its bluff, barrel-chested founder and chairman is Abdul Hameed Shoman, 75, a onetime haberdashery peddler who ranged the U.S. before returning home to open a bank dedicated as much to helping Arabs as it is to making profits. Shoman excels at making helping pay. Last week, as the Arab Bank released its 1962 report, everything...
Mary of your readers thought that the front-page story on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's new tower was a bad joke, or a slur on the school, or both. True, the architect's sketch looked somewhat like the Timbuktu town hall or a crusaders' citadel along the Damacsus road, but the drawing was done by a respected Houston firm, which has planned a red brick veneer to harmonize with Cambridge style and sensibilities...
...with outrage that U.S. Catholics responded. At least 23 Catholic newspapers lamented what Wisconsin's Green Bay Register calls "one of the saddest pages in the history of intellectual Catholicism in the U.S." One editor denounced C.U.'s "authoritarianism"; another labeled the university a "citadel of mediocrity." Snapped Bishop John K. Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio: "Legitimate controversy should not be sidestepped by a center of learning. Suppressing views is no service to truth." In a stiff letter to Rector...
...graduate of The Citadel and of the University of North Carolina Law School, Chadbourn is the author of "Lynching and the Law" (1933) and of "Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure...
...Dexter, currently leading England in the Test series against Australia, is an amateur who rakes in the cash by appearing in testimonial ads for a shirt company, writing sports articles for the London Observer, and receiving royalties on the sale of cricket bats bearing his signature. This anachronistic citadel of privilege seemed near collapse last week. An advisory committee recommended a change in the rules that doubtless will be approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club, a private club charged with setting the rules for England and the Commonwealth. Then there will no longer be either Gentlemen or Players, just Cricketers...