Word: salaam
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...Salaam. At 13, Abdie faced a perplexing problem. Living with his widowed mother in neat poverty in the New Medina (a Moslem quarter) of Casablanca, he was told "if you leave, you'll break your mother's heart." But if he stayed in Morocco, where only a fraction of the children get past elementary school, he might end up like his father who was an office messenger until he died. So Abdie found a solution: he persuaded his older brother to let one of his own children live with his mother while he is away...
...textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...
Women's colleges, luncheon clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer...
...Airport to a waiting plane. With His Highness Prince Karim, fourth Ago Khan, 20, and 49th Imam of the world's Ismaili Moslems, was his father, Prince Aly Khan, bypassed by the late Aga in deciding his successor. Two days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted...
...cite many examples, such as the roving missionary in Tanganyika who would be disappointed not to get our current issue on his weekly shopping trip to Dar es Salaam. British commercial travelers, returning from the Far East with a great hunger for the latest news of the Suez crisis, are delighted to find TIME in the bustling Arabian Sea port of Aden. And at Bishoftu, Swedish airmen training Ethiopian air force crews can now read the news of the world in TIME long before hometown newspapers reach them...