Word: dhahran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their alma mater, and her football games come out of the radio. But last week more than 13,000 University of Maryland undergraduates began a new semester as eagerly as if they were back in College Park. Their campus is global, stretching from frigid Thule in Greenland to burning Dhahran on the Persian Gulf. Stationed at U.S. bases around the world, the students are members of Maryland's booming Overseas Program for American servicemen. Just ten years old, the program may be having as much impact on U.S. education as the invention of the junior college...
...camel herding to study in Egypt and Texas, Tariki is often represented as anti-American (TIME, Oct. 27). At the University of Texas he got a master's degree in petroleum engineering, found an American wife, and then joined the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. at Dhahran. "I was the first Arab to penetrate into the tight Aramco compound," he said last week, "and I never saw such narrow people." American matrons took his wife aside and reproved her for marrying an Arab. Says Tariki bitterly: "It was a perfect case of an Arab being a stranger...
Dial Fame. But it was only recently that Kris, the widely traveled son of Aramco's air-operations manager living in Dhahran, revealed an activity that is shockingly un-Oxonian: he is in a fair way to become wealthy as a teenagers' guitar-thwonking singing idol. A few months ago he answered an ad in London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock...
...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
...agreement was signed at the State Department last Tuesday. It extends for five more years the authority for U.S. use of the Dhahran airfield 1,000 miles from Russia's Middle East border...