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...title he assumed this year), is spiritual leader of Morocco's 9,000,000 Moslems as well as their temporal ruler. For that struggle has also meant a head-on clash with the mullahs of Islam, who insist that the Koran, as the literal word of the Prophet, is subject to no modification or review whatever. The King has dedicated both himself and his daughter to the proposition that the Koran is a living creed, that if Mohammed were alive today, he would be shocked at the uses to which his words are being put by rigid Moslem reactionaries...
...Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public without them...
Equal Time. As the industrial revolution finally reaches Moslem underdeveloped lands, polygamy is dying out by sheer force of economic circumstances. For it is the Prophet's admonition that a man must provide equal economic benefits for each of his wives. A young Malayan wife explained how she kept her husband from acquiring a second wife. Said she, giggling: "I just demand more of him, in every respect. Then I remind him that the Koran requires him to treat each wife equally...
Since the decisive breakaway of 1948, Erhard has proclaimed his Soziale Marktwirtschaft with all the incantatory efficacy of a prophet proved in 53 million pocketbooks. Strange as it may seem to Americans, the fact that he is a professor further enhances his great prestige, for in the elaborately graded system by which Teutons rate their proliferating official titles, the title of professor ranks highest of all. (West German President Theodor Heuss−another economist−is customarily introduced at banquets as "Professor Heuss, the President...
...Dulles talks almost blithely of using tactical nuclear weapons both as a deterrent to aggression and a force to meet it. The only way to employ such weapons would be to have them already on the scene--a feat which would take a prophet to arrange--or to transport them there. The latter is made more difficult by the fact that transportation facilities have continually been cut in order to keep bomber and missile programs untouched. The former would require not only a sixth sense and an unparalleled intelligence agency, but also the manpower to maintain whatever weapons...