Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legitimate Depression. In Guatemala, the newspaper El Imparcial recorded what it called some "depressing" statistics: "In the maternity wards of the hospitals throughout the Republic there was in the year 1946 a total of 2,327 births; of these, 2,219 belonged to bachelor mothers...
...rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes a sedentary life, moves at the speed of a slow-motion film. Asked last week if he thought the Assembly was dragging, El Khoury, with great deliberation, said...
...away from Lake Success, another Arab nodded approvingly at Cattan's performance. From his beflowered villa in Cairo's Qubba Gardens (guarded inside by Palestinian gunmen, outside by Egyptian troops), Haj Amin el Husseini, onetime Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, directed the work of the Arab Higher Committee. Said he: "We go to New York, but we are under no obligations to accept any solution unless it is favorable. If unfavorable, we will fight...
Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
This is election week in the Dominican Republic, but El Jefe did little of the talking. There was no need to discuss the election; it was already rigged, with all the ruthless efficiency of the most thorough dictatorship in the Hemisphere. El Jefe cast a glance at the obelisk and its inscription: "I have put the ambitions of my youth and the brilliance of my career at the service of my country." Beyond such pap, inscribed far & wide on monuments through the Republic, he had no reason to worry about high-sounding ideologies. The dictator and President of the Dominican...