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...boss of the nation's largest shipping line (the Khedi-vial Mail Line), monopolizes the sugar-refining, fertilizer and distilling industries, and also owns or controls at least ten of Egypt's most important companies, including real estate, bus line, textile and cotton-trading interests. Altogether, Ab-boud's companies supply Egypt's leading newspapers with 60% of their advertising revenues. Last week Abboud decided to get into still another field: he will build a mill to make paper, which Egypt needs, from the waste of his refineries...
...Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . . give me an old Springfield rifle and I'll translate word for word, identify the meter and give you the principal parts of every goddam verb, at 1,000 yards, with the peep sight up! And look-I'm not a Latin teacher, but a businessman; but I had good teachers and liked the stuff! Semper fidelisly...
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...Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience rose to go-but not without a burst of applause for its hostess. "We love you, Dr. Martin," cried one Latin teacher. "Goodbye . . . Goodbye," shouted the kids...
...speak cat lan guage, and he proved it by jabbering in the moonlight in such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur in the bezel, for use in case the Jesuits should attempt to ab duct him. He trusted no man and insulted all, yet the least imagined slight could ruin a week for him. To conceal his sensitivity, he cultivated a poker face...