Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier the King picked his court minister, tall, slim Hazza el Majali, 39. Educated as a lawyer, Majali is a Bedouin who grew up in a black tent and rode fiery horses in the desert. His appointment was a gain for the powerful Bedouin families, always the Hashemite throne's most loyal supporters...
...black-tent Bedouin who left off camel herding to study in Egypt and Texas, Tariki is often represented as anti-American (TIME, Oct. 27). At the University of Texas he got a master's degree in petroleum engineering, found an American wife, and then joined the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. at Dhahran. "I was the first Arab to penetrate into the tight Aramco compound," he said last week, "and I never saw such narrow people." American matrons took his wife aside and reproved her for marrying an Arab. Says Tariki bitterly: "It was a perfect case...
American Odyssey. Why has the television western far surpassed the popularity of its previous incarnations in the dime novel, the tent show, the wide screen? Why has it overtaken the space cowboys, the precinct operas and the llama dramas? Says ABC Program Director Thomas W. Moore: "The western is just the neatest and quickest type of escape entertainment, that's all." But few are willing to let it go at that. Parents and professional worriers are concerned about the violence and sadism in the horse opera. Psychoanalysts are looking for sex symbols (all those guns, of course), Oedipal patterns...
...Paper Tent. Paper camping equipment, which campers can use for a season or two and then discard, was put on the market by Corporate Research, Inc. of Ann Arbor. Ford Motor Co. dealers will promote the disposable camping equipment with their sales of station wagons, figure that many a family can be tempted to undertake camping for a low-enough investment. Price for four sleeping bags and a tent to sleep two adults, two children...
...Arts Center site, currently a swamp, is on Soldiers Field Road, a short distance past Harvard Stadium. A 1600-seat tent theatre and an art gallery will be erected there by this summer, and an opera house is planned for the future...