Word: sheikhs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Islam's oldest university has a new rector. Ending a seven month search Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser picked Sheikh Hassan Mamoun, 70, to head Cairo's Al Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, for 1,000 years the most renowned center of Moslem learning...
That bombshell reverberated round the world. CLAY PROUD TO BE A MOSLEM, read a headline in Karachi. At Cairo's University of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Sayed Sabik said: "We are all pleased that a Moslem set such a well-mannered religious example of sportsmanship." And at a "Savior's Day" rally in Chicago, while 4,000 delirious followers shouted "You tell it, dear apostle," Black Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad claimed a share of the heavyweight title for himself. "White people wanted Liston to beat up and probably kill poor little Clay," said Muhammad. "But Allah and myself said...
...Died. Sheikh Bechara el Khoury, 74, first President of independent Lebanon from 1943 to 1952, who spearheaded his country's revolt against the French, gave it one of the Middle East's few stable regimes, but was forced to resign when opposition politicians charged (but could not prove) that his family was profiting from government deals in everything from cement to gold; of cancer; in Beirut...
...where archaeologists are searching out man's past, some of them using the Bible as a guidebook (see SCIENCE), and at a time when Greek Orthodox pilgrims swarm into Old Jerusalem for their Christmas. Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople called the visit "a very progressive act"; Moslem Sheikh Abdullah Alayli of Lebanon more ambiguously declared: "It is like Christ coming back once again to chase the Pharisees from the Temple." But the Pope clearly intended his voyage to be nonpolitical: he will fly to the Holy Land on January 4 with a handful of aides and security guards...
...actors, however, survive the encounter. Guinness as Prince Feisal is finely serpentine, and Quinn is magnificent as the venal and violent Sheikh Auda abu Tayi, a great black hairy camel of a man who sucks up gold as a camel sucks up water, and then spews it out with a roar of patriarchal pride: "I am a river to my people!" But it is O'Toole who continually dominates the screen, and he dominates it with professional skill, Irish charm and smashing good looks. They are the looks of a healthy young lion: large strong animal mouth, blazing blue...