Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammedan Koran sternly forbids the use of alcoholic beverages, but through the centuries, Moslem Iran drank freely and happily of the fermented grape, and produced a bibulous poet, Omar Khayyam. Last week, in Omar Khayyam's homeland, the Majlis turned on liquor as though it were the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. itself, voted for prohibition...
...generale-a sort of core curriculum which all students will have to take. He also wants to introduce the idea of a U.S. college, setting up a model house for 150 students who will live and study together. And he is planning on one other import from his adopted homeland. "This university has more than 6,000 students," says he, "and only eight are Americans. This must be changed at once...
Algren is depressed at what he sees in his Chicago: "Out of the Twisted Twenties flowered the promise of Chicago as a homeland and heartland of an American renaissance...Thirty years later we stand on the rim of a cultural Sahara...The giants cannot come again." And he jams a good deal of depression into this short work...
...Editor Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...
Last week only one dark cloud, as yet no bigger than a man's hand, hovered on the horizon of Yugoslavia-Canada relations. Tito has notified Ottawa that one Radan Radican Grujicic is a refugee in Canada and should be sent back to his homeland to stand trial for 1,000 political murders. Grujicic, according to Belgrade, was chief of Hitler's Gestapo in Serbia. In 1948 he entered Canada as a D.P. Until recently Grujicic lived in a Toronto rooming house; his present whereabouts are unknown, except perhaps to the R.C.M.P...