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...five years Nasser has made the most of them. He appointed himself their champion, and his picture was in every refugee tent and barracks. His Voice of the Arabs blared from loudspeakers in every camp. Greatest potentiality for trouble was in Jordan, where more than 500,000 refugees, together with 500,000 Palestinian Arabs living in the area of Palestine that Jordan had annexed after the 1948 war, outnumbered the original Bedouins of King Hussein two to one. When Nasser called to them, they erupted into the streets, hurling stones at U.S. consulates, attacking U.N. warehouses, battling police. Last year...
...than the mighty Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into our towns like a ton of bricks. But we cover the local news like a tent over a dime. For us. the biggest news in the world is that Mrs. Murphy painted her outhouse red this morning...
...carefully sifted thousands who munch dainty sandwiches on the Buckingham Palace lawn get even a good view of the royalty present. The majority can only tell their children that they once walked on the same grass as the Queen and saw quite clearly the outside of the tent in which she took...
...fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...
...hurried back into the interior, where he was murdered. Stanley dismissed him as a "nearsighted, faithless, ungrateful little man"; even fairer judges must note that the Pasha was slow-witted enough to miss a pretty neat line of dialogue. As the great explorer-journalist stepped out of his tent amid rifle salutes, the Pasha unforgivably failed to say: "Mr. Stanley, I presume...