Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli challenge since 1948 has had much to do with the thrusting of the Arabs into the modern world. "We really should thank Israel for forcing us to grow up," a Beirut publisher remarked last week. In Cairo, a Palestinian businessman recalled the time in 1948 when his father met with a group of fellow Palestinians to plan for the war against Israel. "They proclaimed King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan as commander of their army," he said, "and several members of the group proposed that Abdullah, a descendant of the Prophet, should ride on a white horse like a caliph...
...dozen days of the war reinforced the new sense of pride that Cairenes have felt since the army launched its surprise attack. One Cairo citizen told Wynn: "These new taxes and prices are backbreaking. But never mind. We are no longer under the heels of the Israelis." An Egyptian businessman who frequently travels to Britain admitted: "After the 1967 war I refused to go to London. I couldn't hold up my head and face my British friends. Now, after these past ten days, I wouldn't mind traveling again...
...Lucke lives with her mother and two sons, who sometimes come along on her dates. Interviewed by Vera Glaser and Malvina Stephenson of the syndicated "Offbeat Washington" column, Lucke described her beau as "not a recluse" but sensitive to press jabs. Apparently Rebozo was displeased when another Nixon friend, Businessman Robert Abplanalp, when asked what he planned to do with his property next to the President's $6.1 million San Clemente hacienda, twitted the press: "I'm going to build a ten-story whorehouse...
...listening to a broadcast in which Israel claimed to have knocked out 800 Syrian tanks while the Syrians claimed only 25 Israeli tanks, an Arab diplomat remarked: "You see how the Israelis exaggerate? Our side is cool and realistic, while they make all those ridiculous claims." Said a Beirut businessman: "This week, if I happened to be traveling through Europe, I wouldn't be ashamed of telling people I am an Arab...
...pulls back it is Vermeer's View of Delft, hanging on its wall of the Mauritshuis in The Hague where it is being looked at by a man who thinks of himself as a spy, thinks of himself as being shadowed, and who may be a Spaniard, a businessman named Ramon Mercader, which happens also to be one of the names by which history knows a different secret agent-the man who assassinated Leon Trotsky...