Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer, an able but not always tactful man, offered to increase Britain's economic and military aid if only Jordan would sign. When he tried to bulldoze Jordan's Premier, the Premier resigned (TIME, Dec. 26). Jordan's young, Harrow-educated King Hussein quickly appointed a new government to accept Templer's proposals, but already agitators were stirring. Ambitious King Saud of Saudi Arabia maintains scores of agents provacateurs to promote his influence in Jordan; Communists, though small in number, know how to guide mobs...
Britain sent its top soldier, General Sir Gerald Templer, to Jordan with a tempting proposition: if Jordan would join the Baghdad pact, with Turkey. Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. Britain would boost its aid program (currently $24 million a year), replace the present Anglo-Jordanian treaty with a new one more favorable to Jordan, and increase the size and armored strength of Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion, whose 20,000 men are the best Arab troops in the Middle East...
...GERALD N. WINN...
...read Gerald Moore's book The Unashamed Accompanist, about his ups and downs at the keyboard, and thought it would make the basis of a good record. It did. "We have some friends who love cats," she adds. "I like cats all right, and a cat record occurred to me." Practical Cats, with Robert Donat reading T. S. Eliot poems to music by Alan Rawsthorne, turned up in due course...
Adams House elected Lawrence H. Johnson '57 to replace Gerald L. Cherry '56. With 101 votes, he defeated Gerald M. Kolodny...