Word: sheiks
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...Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that's all behind him now." . . . Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came...
...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
...morning newspaper, the club, the waltz, and eventually the tea party. But it was the age, above all, of an entrenched middle class and hence an enthroned respectability. Men were known to play tennis in top hats. The Biblical historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed in undergarments and taboos; the Victorian tourist, with a former Baptist missionary, Thomas Cook, for guide, came home from the Continent more insular than he had gone away; and there is the famous tale...
...sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic of Lawrence of Arabia...
...pressure-cooked, petrolific Kuwait, where wives are wheeled and dealed like Cadillacs, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, Minister of Justice and Education, finally met a woman who was his match. Six months ago. the 65-year-old sheik got his 27th divorce, this one from pretty ex-Secretary Heidi Dichter, 19. Last week, after yielding to ardent pleas from the changeable sheik, Heidi was back in the marital fold-but on terms. To lure Heidi home again, the sheik promised to pay her family back in Germany a stipend of $150 a month. And if he ever decides...