Word: salaam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine days of competition at the second annual salaam to celestial beauty at Long Beach, Calif, were climaxed by the crowning of a new Miss Universe: Christiane Martel, 18, a green-eyed brunette fashion model from Paris. Height: 5 ft. 3 in.; weight: 125 Ibs.; hull dimensions (stem to stern) 33-22-35. Photographers snapped a beaming picture of the winner surrounded by the runners-up from the U.S., Japan, Mexico and Australia. After a tough hour posing, Miss Universe sounded (in French) like most any other working girl: "My feet are killing...
...Dulles delighted Premier Saeb Salaam of Lebanon, at his fifth stop, by his candor. Stoutly denying that U.S. Middle East policy is Zionist-dictated, Dulles said that the Jews as a whole had voted against him in the 1949 New York senatorial race (which he lost) and generally against Ike in 1952. Said Dulles: the U.S. wants to recapture the Arab world's friendship. Said the Premier: "You must show us acts, not words...
...state of Kentucky, was taken from Germany in World War I. Mostly high equatorial plateau; a hunter's paradise but infested with tsetse flies. Population: 16,000 whites, half of them Germans; 23,000 Indian traders; 7,000,000 Bantus, scattered in some 100 tribes. Capital: Dar es Salaam. Resources: cotton, sisal, peanuts...
...tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances are, he will turn without a word or a sign, and gallop back across the valley and up the hill to tell his people, invisible across the ridge, that there is another damn foreigner poking about their land...