Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When from across the border rose the rollicking sound of the bridegroom's party on its way to fetch Fatma to her new home, Arabs on the Jordan side began to stream from their houses. Fatma's Jordanian sister Zariphe left off wailing "Why can I not be at my sister's side on her great day?" and joined uncles and cousins of bride and groom across the wire from Fatma's house. They watched Fatma in her white organdy dress and thick rosy makeup as she was escorted to a waiting taxi, its roof piled...
Early in the week Jordanian soldiers, roused by Israeli claims to parts of Mt. Scopus, a hill commanding Jerusalem, occupied a house in the disputed zone. When
Last week the secret of the copper scrolls came out. Their subject, announced the French, British and U.S. scholars who have been working on them in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem, was not spiritual at all. They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
Last week Jordan got itself a new Premier and new army commander. The Premier was Said el Mufti, who resigned last December in protest against British attempts to take Jordan into the Baghdad Pact. Now he cried for a revision of the Anglo-Jordanian treaty, which provides Jordan with a $25 million-a-year British subsidy, more than half the country's total revenue. (The British, realizing that subsidy is an ugly word for a proud young nation, would probably agree to pay the same amount for the right to maintain bases and a tank regiment in strategic Aqaba...
...Playboy. At first the British treated the new King as a boy and expected him to go play. He dashed around the country in his fast cars, went on gazelle shoots, where servants pitched tents and spread rich Oriental carpets on the desert floor. Hussein organized a Royal Jordanian Automobile Club, outdrove 28 competitors around the hairpin turns of a hill-climbing course. One day he raced his light grey Mercedes-Benz 300-SL at 150 m.p.h. down the Amman airfield's best runway. "I think she could have done better," he grinned, "but the runway...