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Special Conception. In many respects little (5 ft. 5 in.) Jimmy Hoffa and the man whose throne he seeks are cut from the same pattern. Both Beck and Hoffa are blocky, apparently tireless men who shun liquor and tobacco. Both operate with the hard-shell pragmatism of 19th century coal barons. Alongside Jimmy Hoffa, however, the table-pounding Beck appears a mild-mannered...
...clear and strong through all the ancient kingdoms from Egypt to Iran, Britain created Jordan. Over the years Britain protected the new Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before him. Now young King Hussein cried to cheering mobs: "I pray God will help us regain our stolen rights...
Desert Welcome. Britain created Jordan in the '20s to provide a throne for its World War I ally the Hashemite Emir Abdullah. Glubb arrived from Iraq to work for Abdullah's dusty, black-tent Bedouin kingdom. How, asked Abdullah's father, had Glubb traveled? "Riding a camel," said the newcomer, in fluent Arabic. "By Allah!" exclaimed the old warrior. "This one is a Bedouin...
...Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...Pope, declining his throne, motioned to his personal servant to place a chair for him on the floor "so that I won't look too big." Behind him, a blue-smocked boy and a white-smocked girl laboriously lit the 80 candles on a dove-dotted birth day cake bought by the children themselves. Then, with the blazing cake before him, the Pope found himself the center of a dancing ring-around-a-rosy. A tremulous child chorus burst out: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, Holy Father, happy birthday...