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...Good for You"*-plastered on Dublin's buses. The ads, said Guinness & Co., were not for Irish eyes, but for the benefit of tourists. "After all," explained Managing Director Sir Hugh Beaver, "if you went to Mecca, you'd expect to see some quotations from the Koran." But the ads baffled Dubliners. Said one: "Next, somebody will be telling us we should eat spuds...
Fine Impartiality. Assassin Tahmassebi is a carpenter, a reader of the Koran in the mosque, a member of a small xenophobic sect called Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam) which, with fine impartiality, has been denouncing Truman, Stalin and Britain's George VI. Washington and London, which were shocked and worried by Razmara's murder, regarded Tahmassebi as a mere triggerman; the real instigator was assumed to be Ayatulla Kashani, head of Fadayan Islam and a member of a twelve-man "National Front" in the Majlis (parliament...
...bill granting women the right to vote in national elections and to run for Parliament is now before the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies. It may not easily become law since many Moslems frown on female independence; this is in keeping with the spirit of the Koran, which says: "Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted one above the other, and on account of the outlay they [the men] make from their substance for them [the women]." Turkey, which has had woman suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem...
Leach commenced his discussion of air-ground operations and strategy in the Koran War by stressing the rapid conversion from troops on paper to fighting forces that the invasion of June 25 necessitated. "It quickly became apparent that the R.O.K. forces were insufficient to oppose the North Koreans . . . the bulk of the burden was placed in the Air Force," Leach continued...
Died. Professor Thomas Whittemore, 79, Harvard archeologist who supervised the uncovering of St. Sophia's wondrous Byzantine mosaics; in Washington, D.C. The mosaics, constructed over the course of nine centuries by thousands of anonymous workmen, were plastered over by the Moslem Turks who took Constantinople in 1453 (the Koran prohibits images), remained hidden until 1932, when Whittemore began the painstaking job, still uncompleted, of removing the plaster chip by chip...