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...military academy at Abbasiyah, which had just begun to accept sons of the lower classes as well as the aristocratic boys it traditionally favored. Sadat quickly became friends with Cadet Gamal Abdel Nasser, his classmate. "We were young men full of hope," wrote Sadat later in his Revolt on the Nile. "We were brothers-in-arms, united in friendship and common detestation of the existing order of things. Egypt was a sick country...
...BOLT and Lean, mapmaker Lawrence is a brilliant and self-confident innocent who undertook a personal assizement of the importance of the Arab Revolt of 1916 merely as a chance to escape from General Murray's stifling Cairo staff and indulge in colorful heroics. Lawrence is gradually seduced by the life-style of an Arab warrior, and by the possibility of playing an epic role in the formation of a new democracy-a task which would offer him visionary fulfillment. A bastard, without any inherited identity but possessed of an irrepressible free will, Lawrence welcomes the opportunity to create...
This concurs with the Arabs' own needs. Affected by centuries of tribal infighting and repressive philosophic traditions, they are unable to sustain the revolt they launched because they do not comprehend the extent of their power and virtue. Lawrence serves as their catalyst; recognizing British colonial interests, he dares Prince Feisal to take a battle initiative on his own, without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after...
...speeches, stubbornly predicting his own victory. Gamblers made Dewey an 18-to-1 favorite; some pollsters were so certain of the outcome that they stopped sampling as early as September. But Truman attracted large and noisy crowds ("Give 'em hell, Harry"). He won, mainly because of a revolt among Midwest farmers, who were angry at the Republican Congress and turned off by Dewey's cool gentility...
...Family of Man Award of the New York City Council of Churches seemed especially gratifying. "The $150-a-plate award dinner is a major source of income," noted the executive director, the Rev. Dan M. Potter. Last week, though, some 20 young ministers led an angry anti-Hope revolt at a meeting of the council's General Assembly. "There is nothing in Mr. Hope's record showing public commitment to the three pressing issues that confront the council-poverty, racial justice and peace," said the Rev. Richard J. Neuhaus of Brooklyn's St. John the Evangelist Lutheran...