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...that could be screwed down to the bone and fan belts for administering beatings. Prisoners claimed that they were tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
Suddenly the Arabs, 100 million strong, backward and neglected and abused for centuries, have begun to realize the proportions of the strategic weapon they hold in their hands. They have long complained of the money that Israel has received from the U.S. and Western Europe. Now they are receiving another sort of bonanza-a hundred times over. Their oil wealth is in the process of changing their history, bringing them a power they have not known since the time of the Crusades-a power that could be used for peaceful development or for violence and revenge...
...rich are never more different from everyone else, as F. Scott Fitzgerald should have gone on to observe, than on the hateful ides of April. Most wage earners sweat over piles of canceled checks and interest statements just to worm their income total on Form 1040 backward by one bracket. But no self-respecting zillionaire would be caught within several lines of his real income before it has been vastly shaved by deductions, exemptions and exclusions...
There were several delays in the release of the plans. When they were finally made public, it was obvious that the University had bent over backward to make sure that the library would not intrude on the Yard's stately atmosphere--the library will be almost invisible when it is completed...
Roads. Once part of a backward, undeveloped pocket of northeastern France, Strasbourg today has the Continent at its doorstep. Some 230 trains pass through the town daily, and there are 5,000 miles of quality roads in the immediate area, including German autobahns and Swiss autoroutes that put Frankfurt and Basel only two hours away. (Ironically, it is easier for an Alsatian to travel out of France than to his own capital: Paris is 200 miles and a five-hour drive away, on a treacherous, obsolete two-lane highway.) The handsome new Entzheim Airport, with runways big enough to handle...