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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem cried for arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such an attack...
Frederika and Paul (another relative of Queen Victoria) had first met when she was only ten. Frederika boasts to this day that she fell in love with him at first sight...
...present grandstands on Soldiers' Field are not alone decidedly ugly, but positively dangerous, and the very sight of a piece of fire apparatus behind the stands at a big football game has made many persons timid...
...French expression for love at first sight is un coup de foudre-a crash of thunder. When Jacques Rainier meets Ann Garantier at a carnival in Nice, the crash is shattering. Rainier is a one-armed French intellectual with a two-fisted attitude toward love and war. For 15 years-in Spain, the French air force, the R.A.F., the Maquis-he has been fighting "to defend a civilization which, from the Virgin Mary, Dante, Petrarch and the Troubadors...to the humblest of our movies...has always celebrated the cult of love." Ann is a Hollywood movie star who seems frigid...
...gives the program possibilities, the first show suggested that aimlessness and a degree of silliness, e.g., Murrow's asking Stokowski whether his piano was in tune, might be the cost of its unrehearsed spontaneity. Biggest danger: sacrificing thoughtful conversation to idle chatter about furnishings and other things in sight. Sponsors: Amoco and Hamm Brewing...