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...title of Crown Prince does not as sure Badr of succession. A new Imam is picked by the ulema (learned men) who live in the fortress city of Sana in the north of Yemen. They can choose any male of the royal family or any Yemenite directly descended from the Prophet, of whom there may be as many as 50,000 in Yemen. The ulema do not much like Badr, have refused requests by the Imam to ratify Badr's title. Left-leaning Prince Badr has cultivated the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, and at his urging...
...hated British-owned neighbor, Aden. It was dredged out of a sandspit near the fly-infested city of Hodeida by 300 Russian technicians, plus uncounted Yemeni laborers. Not to be outdone, the Chinese Communists are building a modern highway from Hodeida to the ancient walled city of Sana (altitude: 7,260 ft.), Yemen's oldest capital. Every day, some 2.000 Red Chinese toil shoulder to shoulder with 3,000 of their Yemeni brothers, all the while singing the great ballads of the Chinese proletariat, e.g., "We Will Not Allow United States Imperialists to Ride Roughshod over the People...
...Sana. And the Americans-like the Chinese and the Russians-are itching to do more. A squad of U.S. Army and Air Force dentists has been keeping watch over the Imam's dental plates (which are held in place by U.S.-made magnets), and a U.S. aid mission, unable to interest the Imam in a proposed $5,000,000 overall development program, is now offering to build a water supply system for Taiz...
...both doctors and executives, is that the problem of mental health is finally out in the open, where it can be defined, understood and debated. Out of the debate over how to handle that problem, industry is sure to gain a new awareness of the need for mens sana in corpore sano among its workers-and, gradually, to do more and more about...
Those Arkansas Ozark daddies didn't invent hunkering. The yogi did, centuries ago. They refer to the posture as utkea sana...