Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American in Damascus was worried about the prestige of his country. Here the Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...
Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...
Even so, it was hardly a match for the Communists, who are going all out for international fairs this year, erecting the biggest exhibition building at Damascus, at Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, at Salonika in Greece, at Djakarta in Indonesia. Gone were the days when the Soviets sent a few heavy tools and a few heavy-handed "salesmen" with propaganda pamphlets. Now the Communists were smooth fellows, showing off automobiles, caviar, medical equipment and agricultural implements and talking grandly (though also vaguely) of delivery dates and competitive prices. They were courteous as could be. "After all," explained a Red trade...
Paul is the villain of the Gospel-according-to-Graves-&-Podro. A "Greek-speaking adventurer" disguised as a Pharisee, and certainly no Jew, he began his subversion of the Nazarene Church after he had been converted on the road to Damascus-not by a vision but by Jesus' actual appearance, which literally scared the daylights...
...things until the elections-or until someone else decides to move in for himself-the mixture of soldiers, nationalists, socialists and others who joined in ousting Shishekly picked as new Premier stout, bespectacled Sabri el Assali, a right-wing Damascus lawyer. Around him was assembled a Cabinet notable mostly for its lack of political notables. One exception: Defense Minister Marouf Dawalibi, who was Premier when Shishekly assumed power two years...