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...good deal of their inspiration, of course, must have come from Donald Soule's sets, which are so good as to merit mention before anything else. Soule's Moroccan garden and cartle have a Mediterranean brilliance and intensity that make anyone on stage appear, inevitably, just a little more interesting than he could hope to all by himself. (It is a light which also shows off to [excellent] advantage Lewis Smith's handsome fin-de-niecle costumes...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Captain Brassbound's Conversion | 10/4/1962 | See Source »

...worst recorded disaster in the nation's modern history, the quake was 100 times more violent than the temblor that killed some 20,000 in the Moroccan city of Agadir in 1960; if the epicenter had hit only 90 miles away in Teheran, scientists estimated, more than a million Iranians would have been killed or injured. Though every available rescue unit rushed to the stricken area, some of the villages were so remote that survivors huddled in the ruins for days before medicine and supplies reached them. A dozen nations offered Iran immediate aid. Within 28 hours after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Night the Earth Went Wild | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Besieged by inquisitive foreign reporters, Moroccan diplomats explained blandly that the confusion resulted from European ignorance of Islamic conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morocco: And Baby Makes Two | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Tradition demands that the King of Morocco have at least one wife-he is entitled to four-before he accedes to the throne. Thus loyal Moroccans took it for granted at the time that sportive Bachelor Hassan had quietly been married in the five days between the death of his father, Mohammed V, and his own religious coronation in March 1961. Since it is also customary for royal wives to remain in the background, the marriage was never announced or acknowledged. "If the King has a child," purred a Moroccan diplomat last week, "that is his personal affair." In Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morocco: And Baby Makes Two | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...they had the best education, the choicest jobs, the most money. Today, though Westerners still run the country, they are deeply worried that they will soon be displaced as Israel's ruling class by an unschooled, unskilled mass of settlers of Afro-Asian descent, who already outnumber them. Moroccan-born Dr. André Shuraky, Premier David Ben-Gurion's chief adviser on immigration problems, warned last week that in 15 years three out of every four Israeli Jews will be of Afro-Asian origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Who Will Rule the Country? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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