Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long one of Egypt's most popular political figures, Salah el Din became something of a national hero by leading the successful drive in 1951 for Egypt's abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. As a leading Cairo lawyer, he has never concealed his distaste for the Nasser regime; he spoke out before the National Bar Association in 1954 for a return to democratic processes, and was duly denounced by Nasser for "treachery." But from his jail cell he denied that he had endorsed any plot on Nasser's life. The government said that all 14 "traitors...
...There is danger in the carefree use of the most popular "happiness pill," meprobamate (trade-named Miltown and Equanil), warned the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Side effects, including allergic reactions, shaking chills and fever, have been reported; the drug should be used under medical supervision, with the same care as other tranquilizers...
EXCEPT for Khrushchev himself, no - Russian leader has a more fascinating future to watch than Marshal Georgy Konstantinomch Zhukov, newest member of the Communist Presidium, the only man in the top leadership to have made the Red army his full career, and his country's most authentic popular hero...
...Another. A bouncy man of 40, Paco was born Francisco Rubiales, got his start as a bullfight critic by taking the pseudonym Malgesto (meaning grimace) and unashamedly plagiarizing the work of Mexico's most popular critics. "So I be gan with 40 years' experience, though I was only 21 years old," says Paco. From newspapering he ad-glibbed his way into radio, mostly reporting sporting events to sports-happy Mexicans. When TV arrived in force seven years ago, Pace's genial personality went with the small screen the way a hot sauce goes with enchiladas...
Died. Sholem Asch, 76, Polish-born Jewish writer of popular Biblical novels (The Nazarene, The Apostle, Mary); in London. An erudite man who always carried a pocket-sized Hebrew version of the Old Testament, Asch was saddened by Jew-Gentile divisions, stressed in his work the common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among...