Word: fez
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...children's book editors. "Everybody else called them odd," he recalls. "I didn't." The editors liked the oddness. In 1979 Van Allsburg made his debut with The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in which a boy and a dog stumble onto the house of a magician who wears a fez and blows perfect smoke rings. Typically, the story ends in ambiguity: the reader never knows for sure whether the magician turns Fritz, the signature bull terrier that has appeared in all of Van Allsburg's subsequent books, into a duck...
Flying back to Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South...
Throughout, preparations for the Hassan-Peres meeting were kept secret. Last Monday afternoon Peres left Israel in an unmarked Israeli air force Boeing 707, accompanied only by a handful of aides, an Israeli television crew and two reporters. After landing in Fez, Peres was driven up winding mountain roads to the official guest house, close to the King's granite palace retreat 125 miles from Rabat and 4,400 ft. high in the Middle Atlas range. The Israeli party was finishing dinner when the King drove over in his own car and welcomed his guests. The two leaders greeted each...
...Cordoba in 1135 and died in Egypt in 1204. He was 13 when the Almohades, a fanatical Muslim movement, seized control of his hometown. The Almohades gave Jews the choice of death, conversion or exile. The Maimon family, choosing to depart, wandered for a decade before settling in Fez, then the capital of Morocco. Maimonides, educated by his father and other local rabbis, soon began his first major project, a commentary on the Mishnah, which is part of the Talmud, the massive and authoritative compilation of Jewish law. Maimonides' work contained the 13 Articles of Faith, to this day part...
...hold the country's first presidential primary. Congressman Jack Kemp skipped the family barbecue in upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After marching in a procession in the town of Clear Lake that included a troop of fez-wearing Shriners on motorcycles, Kemp was approached by a woman who pleaded, "Let me shake your hand, just in case you're President some...