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...Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
...Mohammedan legend has it, Jesus was walking in the bazaar with His disciples one day when they came upon the body of a dead dog. "How it stinks!" blurted one disciple. Said another: "Look at the buzzards wheeling overhead." But Jesus looked and said, "How whiter than any pearls are the teeth...
...ventured to guess how the voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...
...Arabs, too, Beersheba had deep historical and religious significance. It was here that Abraham drove out into the wilderness his Egyptian servant Hagar, and Ishmael, the son she had borne him. Ishmael, according to Mohammedan tradition, became the father of the Arab race...
Lanky, gawky Bob Falkenburg, who has a pretty sister (Jinx) and a fireball serve, made himself unpopular at Wimbledon last week. In the semifinals, he alienated the fans by kneeling with his head down on the grass like a Mohammedan at sunset, or just lying prone at the baseline to rest for the next point. London's press arched an eyebrow at his "curious mannerisms" and "irritating demeanor." Explained Falkenburg: "I was tired...