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Shrewd little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan likes to shoot and hunt, compose delicate Arabic poetry, recite from the Koran, and play chess. He also aspires to enlarge his kingdom. Last week, fingering a set of exquisitely carved chess pieces in his winter palace at Shouneh, a few miles east of the River Jordan, he told a TIME correspondent: "Politics is like chess: you cannot rush your pawns across enemy territory, but must seek favorable openings...
...India radio broadcast Gandhi's favorites: extracts from the Gita, the Upanishads and the Koran; the Lord's Prayer; the Christian hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Then, after midnight, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas (who insisted that Gandhi be cremated, as he had wished) helped wash the body. He and Gandhi's secretary Pyarelal then wrapped the body in pure white khadi. They put a yellow paste of sandalwood and water on his face...
...students a regular salary (from $2 to $12 a month) instead of charging them tuition. It gets ?350,000 a year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy Moslem alumni. There are no entrance exams, though every Egyptian student is expected to know the Koran (the Moslem Bible and Al Azhar's main textbook) by heart-a feat they master...
...diary and what are referred to as "open" letters from the General to Mrs. Patton. An introductory section of letters from North Africa and Sicily will be an eye-opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at 40-60 miles a day. In spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems...
...since a strike of Moslem students in 1912, chapel attendance at A.U.B. has been voluntary, but Christian, Moslem and Jew often worship together at the university services. When the spirit moved him (and in 25 years it often did), Bayard Dodge preached sermons to his students, could quote from Koran as well as Scripture. Dodge is proud that A.U.B.'s melting-pot of 50 nationalities and 20 religions has never boiled over...