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...with an eye for a bargain and a hankering for the sea (Odysseus was always his hero, Ithaca his spiritual homeland), Onassis began buying merchant ships. From Canadian National Railways, he purchased half a dozen vessels in 1930 at $20,000 apiece. Each had cost $2,000,000 to build ten years earlier. When World War II broke out, Onassis owned many of the precious tankers in Allied waters...
...volcanic rage and a long memory for a grudge. He is apolitical, and indeed could hardly be otherwise in the volatile Athenian climate. Forced to wheel and deal with the present junta for economic survival, he was last week on the verge of completing a $360 million deal to build a seaport, an aluminum-processing plant (with Reynolds) and a few hotels. Practical-minded Greeks feel that his alliance with a Kennedy will probably improve the junta's image and perhaps help Greece's lagging tourist business...
...spending, disarmament and the draft. Nixon wants to invest more in missiles to increase the U.S.'s narrowing lead over the Soviets, while Humphrey emphasizes that one of his chief concerns would be to close a disarmament deal with Moscow. Nixon favors spending $3 billion or more to build a professional army that would do away with the need for a peacetime draft. Humphrey is for a lottery draft...
Thanks to De Gaulle. A prime factor in the resurgence has been the government's decision to build up defense industries in order to spend more of the military budget inside Israel's own borders. Says Moshe Kashti, Director General of the Defense Ministry and author of the plowshares-into-swords program: "We were buying planes in France and making shirts at home. It seemed logical to make the planes at home and buy the shirts in France...
Last spring, the City government was divided over whether to build the relocatable classrooms, or to adopt the supposedly less expensive course of scattering the Houghton children throughout other City schools for the next two years. Proponents of the relocatable classroom plan argued that it would keep the Houghton children together for the period, preserving the "unique spirit of the school...