Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering the Middle East's biggest stories, including six TIME covers, Mecklin has come to know well every Arab head of state except the Imam of Yemen and the Sheik of Kuwait. He was on close enough terms with Nasser to be chosen for the dictator's first interview, six hours long, after the Suez war. That friendship has since chilled. He was a good friend of the late Nuri Pasha of Iraq, who always greeted him with the shout: "Hey Look!" Saudi Arabia's King Saud once gave him a wristwatch-though, since TIME...
...position was an uneasy one. Its armed presence in Lebanon might even hasten what it sought to prevent. In all the Arab world east of Suez, not one ruler pledged to the West remained in power last week except by the presence of Western troops. Whatever existing boundaries might be, there was no blinking the fact: the most elemental force in the Middle East is the unifying passion of Al Umma al Arabia, and Nasser symbolizes...
...college in Bakersfield, worked restlessly as a factory hand in Detroit, schoolteacher in Colorado and a social worker in California, then started to make his way around the world as a freelance writer. In 1939 he landed in Shanghai flat-broke and wangled a job with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train...
Matches will be played on the Soldiers Field varsity tennis courts with no umpires in the early rounds. They will be determined on a best-of-three basis, except the final rounds of the men's singles and doubles, which will be on the basis of best-of-five...
Tickets providing bus transportation, rooms in private homes, passes for all concerts in the Shed, admission to all special events, and swimming privileges--everything except meals--are still available in Grays Hall. The cost...