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...state capitalism, or what? The official smiled. "We have a good word in Arabic. It is eimar. It means when you finish a house or complete some worthwhile thing, it has a quality of progress. We call our program eimar." Resting overnight in his summer palace at Sarsange, shy, Harrow-educated Feisal found eimar's reception encouraging: "The people seem to feel that we are doing something important for them...
...better. he cannot entirely appreciate the Manhattan dames who "have eleven-inch waists, barndoor mouths, and stand around on the sidewalks with their feet at right angles to one another." But he can also be pretty biting about life back home and "the plumbing, dry-battery, wallboard. disk-harrow and axle-grease aristocracy." There speaks a man-Dick Bissell as much as Jack Jordan-caught in the middle between houseboats and station wagons, between the home that made him and a home he hasn't yet made...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000, one-third Palestinian refugees). Has broken off relations with France, and London has announced "temporary withdrawal" of its military mission, foreshadowing the end of the $25 million British subsidy. Its Harrow-educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn...
...Harrow-educated King Hussein, Arab nationalist though he is, would almost certainly fight any move to abrogate the Anglo-Jordan Treaty. His reasons:1) the Jordanian government could not function without the $25 million annual subsidy which it gets from Britain, and there is little likelihood that Egypt or Saudi Arabia would make up the difference; 2) the fact that Britain is treaty-bound to come to Jordan's defense provides greater protection against an all-out Israeli attack than any agreement Jordan might make with the Arab states...
...Enduring Marks. At 15, Nehru was sent to Harrow. "I well remember," he wrote in his autobiography, "that when the time came to part [from Harrow], tears came to my eyes." Moving on to Cambridge, where he specialized in chemistry, botany and geology, Nehru along with many of his British contemporaries acquired a faith in science as the universal nostrum. "Those were the days," recalls one of Nehru's English friends, "when Socialism was a pretty vague thing. Earnest young men at Oxford and Cambridge talked ethics, politics and economics in the same breath, without knowing exactly what they...