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Egypt's Nasser intrigues with Jordan extremists to join an Arab federation which Nasser would head. The Syrians hanker to see Jordan joined in a Greater Syria. The Saudis lay claim to Jordan's Aqaba area, now being evacuated by the last of the British hussars. The Iraqis, poising 10,000 picked troops at H3, the pipeline pumping station just over the northeastern border, aim to see Jordan merge with its fellow Hashemite kingdom if it merges with anybody. And the Israelis, with the best army and most troublesome border of all the neighbors, stand ready...
...more constructive direction, Bill also had half a hanker to be a musician, and in his spare time picked up a fair proficiency on two instruments-clarinet and piano-and a real professional sheen on two others-drums and bones. At almost everything his timing and coordination were exceptional-though, curiously he could never learn to dance very well-and they showed to brilliant effect whenever he was on a stage. In the sixth grade he played Rip Van Winkle in the school play, and made a hit with all the mothers. He decided he might like...
Behind the entertainment whirl, the girls hanker after some intellectual life. Dorothy Dandridge slips into a pink shirt and tight slacks and thinks seriously about her private personality. As a divorcee, she is faced with raising her nine-year-old daughter, has delved into Freud and Norman Vincent Peale to help herself understand the problem...
...firm, too, about measurements and directions generally: "Pour them [the eggs] into a saucepan-yes, a saucepan, no, not a frying pan." This is richer cooking than most U.S. diners are used to, but it will be the fiercest Francophobe who can read Alice's recipes and not hanker for a taste, the dullest cook who will not want to get to the kitchen and try them out. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book is, after all. the work of a lady who can ask (and leave unanswered) the painful question: "If one had the choice of again hearing...
Executive Order. The Ohio-born or ganist and his organ arrived at West Point simultaneously in 1911. The instrument was a three-manual affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...