Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians take him over. After lolling on the beach soaking up the shrewd master's useful counsel on the dangerous game that 66-year-old Tito has played with eminent success, President Nasser last week boarded ex-King Farouk's old yacht for a slow voyage home...
...contradictions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's primitive yet complex character have made him hard for the West to appraise and even harder to deal with. In the beginning, Westerners saw much to admire in this handsome, dedicated young soldier who drove out the gross and sybaritic King Farouk, and who vowed to clean out the corruption of the greedy pashas. He seemed the promise of an honorable Arab future: unlike decadent rulers, or their wealthy retainers, he seemed to want nothing for himself. He lived simply with his wife and five children. He said-and doubtless meant it then...
Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik, accompanied by his wife, three sons and two daughters. Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Tito, an old pro among neutralists, was patently pleased to have the hero of the uncommitted Arab masses dropping in just when the Kremlin was waging such heavy propaganda war on Tito...
...this particular tense juncture of the Kremlin's hue and cry against Yugoslavia, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser last week took off in King Farouk's old yacht for a long-scheduled reunion with Marshal Tito...
...hobble-de-hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when...