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Attacking this proposal as "fantastic" and illegal, Moses seemed unwittingly to be speaking for the entire establishment that Lindsay is challenging when he recalled his 40 years as "sultan, vizier, pasha and emir" of assorted public enterprises. The final frustration for Lindsay came at legislative committee hearings, when Bob Wagner questioned the desirability of a transit czar with the acerbic comment that the official "would need to be Superman and Batman rolled into...
...Wortley was named ambassador to the court of the Sultan. In her celebrated "embassy letters" from Turkey, Lady Mary wrote about everything from royalty to rest rooms, and was particularly happy to find that the custom of the veils reduced "danger of Discovery" and made "the number of faithfull wives very small...
...Constantinople, capital city of the Byzantine Empire and the gateway to Christian Europe. At the rate of seven shots a day, the big gun battered at the enormous walls and their 7,000 Christian defenders while an army of 80,000 Turks waited. At dawn on May 29, the Sultan's janissaries stormed the shattered walls and took the city. The spectacular final siege and fall of Constantinople is here meticulously described by Britain's well-known medieval historian, in a volume that can be read as the coda of his massive History of the Crusades. Unfortunately...
...drawn up the independence papers long ago, were unprepared for the event. There was no Union Jack that could be dramatically rung down. None of the Queen's relatives were there. The ceremony was not even held in the Maldives. It took place, quite unexpectedly, when Sultan Ibrahim Nasir appeared at the door of the British High Commissioner's home in Ceylon and said he was ready to sign. He was sorry to arrive without warning, said Nasir, but he hadn't expected to be coming to Colombo so soon. He had made the three-day boat...
Royal Scandal. Nasser was dealt an even sharper blow in the Trucial States,* which lie on the Gulf side of the horn of Arabia. There, in the tiny, impoverished sheikdom of Sharja, where Britain has an R.A.F. base, Sheik Sakr bin Sultan al-Kasimi has long been the Gulf's only pro-Nasser ruler. When the Egyptian-dominated Arab League proposed a big aid program for the seven Trucial States last year, six of them turned it down at British nudging. Sheik Sakr, 39, on the other hand, joyfully accepted the offer and invited an Arab aid mission...