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...brothers and made him Sultan at the age of 17. Although Sultan Sidi Mohammed, now 40, still signs the country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became a semi-invalid from an intestinal ailment, took to reading English constitutional...
...York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor. He had broadcast: "President Truman is not going to let MacArthur get away with it." On the eve of the announcement, Godwin proclaimed: "By tomorrow night there will be a blast...
...Like the prophet Joel, the Iranians, who reported 90 swarms of locusts invading their country last week, saw them as an enemy army. Into the attack went an Iranian task force of 28 motorized teams of 68 soldiers each, supported by six C-47 planes, radio jeeps, two squadrons of 80 camels each and 150 technicians. Their objective: to lay poisoned bran over 2,000 square miles...
...have been writing for newspapers for a long time," he wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...
...Louvre curator and foreign adviser to the Met, did the proving. In the Met's current Bulletin, Sterling confessed he had always viewed Mlle. Charlotte with "a mixture of admiration and skepticism." The complex background, the lighting from behind, the modeling and drawing are all unlike David. Painter-prophet of the French Revolution, David was the sort of man who could and did express disappointment that only 80 aristocrats were guillotined in one morning. Mlle. Charlotte's atmosphere of sweetness & light hardly typifies his work...