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...Francis Barnard, the poet, and David Lloyd who played Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...
...slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke grew silently out of the road. By the time the sound had echoed back, the vehicle was rolling helplessly down the precipice. From the escarpment rose an Arab cheer; one man jumped up and kissed both chubby cheeks of Captain Selim Assil, a staff officer from Fawzi's headquarters...
...those were not worries enough, Khoury's sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Haddad, had become Dahish's most fanatical disciple. As the stories made the rounds of Beirut, the Government decided to act. Foreign Minister Selim Takla, buzzed the bazaars, was drafting a deportation order for Dahish. Then, on the night of Jan. 11, 1945, Takla entertained U.S. Minister George Wadsworth (now Ambassador to Iraq) at dinner. Wadsworth left the Foreign Minister, apparently fit and smiling, returned home to find a message that Takla had dropped dead...
...fighting unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim (1512-20) took Syria and Egypt. Suleiman the Magnifi cent (1520-66) conquered Persia and Hungary, got as far as the gates of Vienna before retiring to consolidate his conquests...
Egypt. At Gizeh, near the great pyramids of Chephren and of Cheops, Professor Selim Hassan of Cairo gouged into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...