Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the dozen passionate young army officers who preside over Egypt's 19 millions, none could be more temperamental or more troublesome under stress than sleek, slight Major Salah Salem. One of the original handful who plotted the overthrow of fat, frolicsome King Farouk, Salem had the lithe grace and purring charm of a cat, and like a cat, he could spit venomously if his fur was stroked the wrong...
...trebled his business in the next ten years. Among Harmer customers: King George V (who sometimes squeezed the family budget to add to his priceless Commonwealth collection), King Carol II of Rumania, Alfonso XIII of Spain, and Egypt's King Fouad (whose stamps were sold by Harmer after Farouk's abdication). In 1954-55, its biggest year yet, Harmer's British, U.S. and Australian offices sold nearly $2,000,000 worth of stamps...
Egypt's pleasure-sated ex-King Farouk, most feckless monarch of modern times, celebrated the third anniversary of his dethronement by calling in Paris newsmen and weeping like a Nile crocodile over the plight of his former subjects. Blubbered fat, foolish Farouk, while sipping unloaded mineral water (booze was never one of his vices): "The revolution has turned into a tyrannical dictatorship. The army officers, the so-called 'liberators,' have become small despots. Egypt is now a police state and the Egyptians are a captive people...
...hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting an eye. Patrons include Egypt's ex-King Farouk, Hollywood's ex-Star Bruce Cabot (now a fixture of Rome's colony of movie expatriates), visiting U.S. executives, Turkish businessmen, passing luminaries...
...almost the same spot one night last week, helmeted members of the Garde Républicaine held seats for people of importance-British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, ex-King Farouk. When they and some 8,000 others were seated, the production of ballet hit a height of splendor to satisfy a Medici...