Word: harrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voting with Stones. Jordan's smiling young Harrow-educated Hashemite King, the 20-year-old Hussein, needed help. Faced with overwhelming opposition to the King's attempt to join the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the palace politicians tried to call off the spring balloting which the King had hastily promised in the midst of last month's rioting...
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...
Templer's diplomacy worked well enough to win over some of Jordan's leaders, including 20-year-old (Harrow, '51-'52) King Hussein. Last week Premier Said el Mufti and four Cabinet members who opposed the pact resigned, and the King promptly appointed a new Cabinet headed by a young (36) lawyer, Hazza el Majali. The new government was ready to accept Templer's package proposals, but first it had to survive a tough test of its authority, mainly among the country's half million destitute Arab refugees from Israel, who are easily inflamed...
...Eton and Harrow standards, strange things happen on the playing fields of Clayesmore. A small (290 pupils), progressive school in Dorset. Clayesmore believes in strenuous academic fare as well as in teaching its boys to fell trees, lay bricks, mix concrete, build walls, weave baskets. It also likes them to study nature in field and forest. Last week British scientific circles were buzzing over just how far Clayesmore will go. The school had suddenly emerged as a full-fledged authority on the toad...
...convertible, and Frank Yerby (The Foxes of Harrow) commutes between the Riviera and Long Island. Such fiction-factory owners as Erie Stanley Gardner live as well as factory owners...