Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Kremlin's propagandists ventured to criticize Nasser's stern repression of Egyptian Communists (TIME, June 16). Said Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Ibrahim Sowail: "We will not abide Soviet attacks on any Arab country and least of all on the U.A.R., our biggest sister." Top officials in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon took the Soviets to task for being "unfair" to an Arab neighbor. Arab propagandists took up the cudgels in their own fashion. "Communism," the Baghdad daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid explained to its readers, "is to all intents and purposes a Jewish concept." READ ABOUT...
...Greece was a respite after the rigors of her grand tour of the week before. When her husband flew back to the U.S., she lingered on in London for two days of rest and antique hunting. Then she flew off for her Grecian odyssey. Her companions were her sister and brother-in-law, Prince and Princess Radziwill; John Mowinckel, deputy public affairs officer with the USIA in Paris, and his wife. In Greece, Jackie was the official guest of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, but being a poor man with only a small apartment in Athens. the Premier delegated his friend...
...employees who have been drawing pay from several simultaneous jobs lost their sinecures. Chief sufferer: the chancellor of Shiraz University, who reportedly held twelve other high-salaried posts. Amini even dared to attack Ehsan Davaloo, Iran's caviar queen and intimate friend of short-tempered Princess Ashraf, twin sister of the Shah. Mrs. Davaloo was arrested and charged with having got her $450,000-a-year caviar concession by bribing officials...
...garbageman, the second thing was a priest. "Some Baptists will find a comparison in that," he cracks. A high point of his youth was when his father, a minor politician, wangled the first electricity in his "back-of-the-stock-yards" neighborhood. So impressive was this that when his sister read about "wanton women standing under gaslights, leading men down sinful paths," the future Bishop exclaimed: "How awful-gaslights...
...rumpled man with hair like a boxwood hedge and a permanent expression of bereavement. Kaufman hid a marshmallow heart with a manner that discouraged nicknames. To the actors in the 40 plays he directed (many of his own. and such others as Of Mice and Men, My Sister Eileen and Guys and Dolls), he spoke like a young mother. But he terrified waiters, suffered fools badly, and did not welcome familiarity from underlings-or from overlings either, as Critic Alexander Woollcott. his boss when Kauf man was on the drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity...