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...Cemeteries. Ben-Gurion is the kind of man who provokes strong reactions. "He is a man nobody can talk to, reason with or deal with," says Jordan's Education Minister Auni Abdel Hadi. Admirers call him another Churchill; others, like one State Department official, consider him "the most dangerous man in the Middle East." "Ben-Gurion is not a full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Prophet with a Gun | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

From his GHQ at Abbasiya Barracks early one morning this week, flying squads roared into Cairo, rounded up 62 sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sword Unsheathed | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...clock that night Egypt had a new Premier: tall, stocky Abdel Hadi Pasha, former cabinet chief to King Farouk and onetime Foreign Minister. Like his old friend Nokrashy, he is a strong nationalist and leader of the Saadist Party, is expected to push the war in Palestine and continue the clean-up of the Moslem Brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Dam-Bid-Dam | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Michael Owens, backed by Edward Libbey, invented the automatic bottle-making machine, formed Owens Bottle Machine Co., now Owens-Illinois. Another inventor, one Irving Colburn, hadi invented an improved method of making glass sheets. Messrs. Libbey and Owens bought the Colburn patents, improved the process, went into the flat glass business. But they kept bottles & windows in two separate corporate packages and the only connection today between Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois is the name of the late, great Mike Owens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great prestige. Emir called for war, for more war, for the Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Fall of Yemen (Cont'd) | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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