Word: moslem
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...Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan's King Hussein. Now came a non-Arab Moslem, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and his Empress Farah Diba, to whom Johnson gave cowboy suits for their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter...
...minor tax collector in the vil lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
...looked like a regular hegira at Accra International Airport as 5,000 frantic Ghanaians cheered, "Welcome, King of the World! Welcome, Mohammed Ali!" Actually it was only that latter-day prophet, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 22, who speedily made clear that he likes Moslem women and customs. "I'm going to get me four wives and take them back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know...
...Catholic chaplains, he is bishop of the Catholics in the armed forces. He also bears a major responsibility for the church's largest charity, Catholic Relief Services, a $176 million foreign aid program that sends food and clothing to 79 countries around the world, from Moslem Algeria to Catholic Peru. In grudging tribute to his financial power and financial skill, Rome sometimes calls him "Cardinal Moneybags...