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Good Friend Farouk. At 4 that morning, a Cadillac bearing Serag el Din drew up to the family's country estate, now completely cordoned by police. The ex-minister and real boss of the Wafdists stood on his porch, lit a stogie, then shrugged his shoulders, walked inside and went to bed. The same morning, Imam Bey's men picked up Abdel Fattah Hassan, Serag el Din's crony, and plumped him down also on a Delta estate...
...first round went to Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha, the Premier, the honest man without a party (TIME, March 10). But like all championship fights, this one has many more rounds to go, and Hilaly is still at a disadvantage. He can count on only one powerful friend, King Farouk, who has been waiting a long time to strike down the Wafd Party and Serag el Din. Honest Hilaly sadly lacks popular political support...
...replanting of the Tree of Life. Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...
...hope," Farouk answered, "that you will succeed in this great program, which includes everything I might have asked...
...factual, could be construed as "propaganda" or injurious "to national prestige." Pakistan, for example, wanted to extend everywhere the Moslem rule that forbids images of Mohamed; the Egyptians wanted the press to follow Egypt's own censorship rules and thus, for instance, ban any news of King Farouk's high jinks; Latin American delegates plugged for amendments that made "unfair" reporting (i.e., unfavorable) of their affairs a crime. Behind these gripes stood the Communists, fanning every spark of resentment against the U.S. and Britain, charging that the U.S. convention was simply a naked power grab to protect...