Word: alie
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...discovered last year that sending Christmas cards was one thing I didn't have to do," says Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown. Others who have made the same discovery include Actress Jane Fonda (no peace on earth these days), Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (he is a Black Muslim), Actress Gloria Swanson (Christmas is too complicated as it is), Author Truman Capote ("I loathe all that rushing around and buying just because it's Christmas") and Singer James Taylor. "James probably doesn't even know when Christmas is," explains his secretary. "And if he did send out cards, they...
Though both Pakistan and India began as parliamentary democracies, they soon drifted along divergent political paths. Jawaharlal Nehru lived to guide India into a role as the world's largest democracy (pop. 547 million), but Pakistan's founding leaders, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan, died soon after independence and eventually the country fell" under military control. Since the military was dominated by the Pathans, Punjabis and Baluchis of the West, it became established policy to short-change the poorer, more densely populated eastern wing, which before the refugee exodus began last March had a population of 78 million...
...Arnold Toynbee described it, "A British arbiter had decreed that the pen should be substituted for the sword as the instrument with which the competition was conducted." As independence approached, the Moslems understandably grew uneasy about the pros- pects of life under a vengeful Hindu majority. Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah demanded the creation of a separate Islamic nation, Pakistan. Among the five provinces that opted to join the new nation was East Bengal, whose Moslem majority had no desire to live under a Hindu-controlled government in New Delhi. Despite the ravaging that East Bengal has taken...
Ignoring cries from the crowd, Ali refused to finish off his defenseless opponent. "Yes, I deliberately held up," explained Muhammad, who won a unanimous decision. "I don't believe in killing a man just to satisfy a crowd...
...Ali picked up $300,000 for the light workout (Mathis' cut was $60,000), which was designed as a promotional prelude to the expected multimillion-dollar rematch with Champion Joe Frazier. Trouble is, Ali and Frazier so outclass the other contenders that in tuning up for their second "fight of the century" (Muhammad meets Germany's Jurgen Blin next month, Joe fights Texan Terry Daniels in January), they seem to be reviving the old bum-of-the-month club...