Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the Persian Gulf, past the sandy, heat-shimmering wastes of southern Arabia, a grubby tanker plowed. It was tiny (632 tons) and slow (7.5 knots), but last week the Rose Mary was the most celebrated oil tanker in the world...
...Cairo, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to join the kneeling crowds outside the packed mosques. At Dhahran on the Persian Gulf, the Arabian-American Oil Co. eased its daily work schedules for its fasting, prayerful employees. The Arab cafes of Algiers were empty. In Beirut and Karachi, Western-educated university students put aside their examination papers to meditate on the Koran. Five times a day, from the holy shrines of Mecca to the blackened bamboo mosques of the southern Philippines, muezzins spoke the Arabic words calling the faithful to prayer in a special time of self-denial and self-examination...
After a successful 15-year parade of singing mice, hermits, retired admirals, reformed criminals and such, We, the People (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) last month tried a change of pace. Jovial M.C. Dan Seymour was given a vacation, and Sponsor Gulf Oil set out to win a new kind of popular success. With the help of the editors of LIFE, We, the People is presenting a 13-week series devoted to the race for the Presidency. The story of the candidates and issues is being told in a mixture of live interviews, films, animated cartoons and commentary...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Tillman Hooks, 78, adopted (when she was five) daughter of Jefferson Davis, President (1861-65) of the Confederate States of America; in New Orleans. Mrs. Hooks came to live at Beauvoir, the Davis Gulf Coast home, while her foster father was writing The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, later married Henry Hooks, a Texas railroad agent...
Beneath a bright Gulf Coast sun near Corpus Christi last week, 20,000 visitors trooped curiously through Reynolds Metals Co.'s spanking new $80 million aluminum plant. They ate free Eskimo Pies* and hotdogs kept warm on freshly poured pigs of aluminum, while a high-school band blared Whistle While You Work. Reynolds Metals' pudgy, 43-year-old President Richard S. Reynolds Jr.† had something to whistle about: he now has the world's biggest aluminum pot-line...