Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young men in Moslem Pakistan have a thin time of it. In many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
...Nasserite commandos, were being held in readiness barely 100 miles from the strategic Iraqi city of Mosul, and Bedouin tribes along the frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power...
...week's end, from his hospital bed, "the sole leader'' made a public declaration of confidence in the loyalty of his troops: "I can assure you there is not in the whole of the Middle East an army as strongly united as the army of our young republic." To some listeners, it sounded less like a statement of fact than a cry for help...
...Harvard seat" is a pleasant political myth, and Barnes realizes he must fight for his election. He has College, Law School and GSAS young Democrats, Republicans and liberals working for him, allegedly reaping all sorts of political experience. "It's a new form of patronage," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. commented recently. "Bill gives people jobs before the election instead of after it." Schlesinger is only one of many University people to endorse Barnes' candidacy; even if there is no such thing as a "Harvard seat," Barnes is certainly the Harvard candidate...
...Madison, Wisconsin to draft the constitution of the USNSA. The student organization that was to emerge was new in name and structure, but in spirit a descendent of the student organization of the thirties, the National Student Federation of America. The President of NSFA in 1932 had been a young man named Edward R. Murrow; its last congress in 1940 had been organized by Orville Freeman, now Governor of Minnesota...