Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Builder. At the age of 19, Vaselli enlisted in the army for one single purpose: to save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman. Even then, Vaselli had one overriding maxim: "Never spend in a month more than you make in a week." By this Spartan pecuniary principle, Vaselli waxed rich before World War I, contracting to haul away the garbage that householders had been tossing into Rome's fly-fouled streets...
...major crop is cotton. But the Sudan also produces nine-tenths of the world's supply of gum arabic, is going ahead on its own with a well-thought-out plan (originated by Britain after World War I) for developing the Gezira region, a 5,000,000-acre triangle of potentially rich flatland between the Blue and White Niles...
...Nile's flow, the Sudan the remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles inside Sudanese territory, keeps careful watch on the Nile's flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...
...opening of old wounds. In June 1955 Judge Benjamin Halevy ruled that Gruenwald was substantially right. Kastner, said the judge, was a Nazi collaborator who "sold his soul to the Devil" when he accepted the Nazi offer to spare 600 Jews. By failing to tell his people what lay ahead for them, he contributed to the murders of Auschwitz (TIME, July...
More accustomed to calculating the breezes, Old Campaigner Gonzales came out ahead, 6-3, 6-3. But the victory gave Pancho only a slim 5-4 lead in the 100-match contest that started in Brisbane and is planned to wander all over the world. So close is the competition that next day in Christchurch, Lew zeroed in on the base line and pounded Pancho's backhand so aggressively that he evened the score in straight sets...