Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold, inspires a lot of Americans to think of Douglas MacArthur as the man the country needs in the White House. Yet no sooner had MacArthur freshened his image as a contemporary statesman, than he began fading back again into the shadows. This week he visited Little Rock, Ark., where he was born 72 years ago while his father, Arthur MacArthur, was in command of the old Army arsenal. Obviously caught in the sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved...
...August A. ("Gussie") Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (Budweiser beer); and Gertrude ("Trudie") Buholzer, 25, a Swiss restaurateur's daughter whom he met in Switzerland in 1949 while on a trip to buy a black schnauzer; he for the third time; in Hot Springs, Ark...
...local discus record and played tackle on the varsity football squad. He was a good campus politician and was elected president of the student body. After getting his A.B. (in 1924), he taught math and coached football for a year in a high school at Hot Springs, Ark. One day he told a friend: "If I go on to be a football coach, I'll be through at 40. I'm going to Yale and be a lawyer...
Iraq's oil is a big IF. The oil is there, all right, and has been since recorded history. Noah caulked his Ark "within and without with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within...
...chief disciple, a stocky journalist and mathematician named P. D. Ouspensky. The Russian Revolution soon sent Gurdjieff and Ouspensky scurrying. Near Paris, at a Fontainebleau estate, Gurdjieff founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Ouspensky ended up in London and established the Gurdjieff Institute. It was this "ark" that Author Walker helped to build, and it was under Ouspensky that he began to study Gurdjieff's teachings...