Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pugnacious Poem. The tie with Yemen had been bizarre from the first. Nasser had hoped to reform the Stone Age kingdom and make it part of a Pan-Arab nation; Yemen's wily old Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing his country (where slavery, public flogging and eye-for-an-eye justice are still practiced). The Imam dodged all meetings with Nasser, barred the twelve-member U.A.R. committee from convening in Yemen, and tore up all of its recommendations for reform. He was unimpressed when, in his new drive...
...foremost playground and financial center in the Eastern Mediterranean, Beirut is choked with well-heeled pashas, politicians and oil sheiks from Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait-most of them distrustful of cash and preferring concrete investment. In recent years the Arab millionaires have sunk $83 million into Beirut apartment houses. The Kuwaiti sheik who tools past his ten-story property in an air-conditioned Lincoln is delighted that he has converted his money into something solid-even though it may be half empty. "Why should I lower my rents and let the poor people in?" asked one pasha...
Phenix's ideal school would shun all social stratification, from numbered grades to skin color. It would emphasize learning as "preparation for the good life," not "the cash value of more education." It would stress the rule of law in national and world affairs, and forcefully analyze "the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war." From the consequences of protective tariffs to the advantages of foreign languages, it would always presuppose "universality and world outlook...
...loft a homer into the bleachers. Pittsburgh's flashy Roberto Clemente hit only 23 homers, but he pounded out 201 base hits and led the National League with a .351 batting average. In the American League, no competitor came within 37 points of Detroit's Norm Cash, who hit 41 homers and drove in 132 runs while putting together a .361 batting average. Cincinnati's Frank Robinson and New York's Mickey Mantle won the major leagues' "slugging" championships (figured on the basis of total bases instead of base hits); Homer-Hitter Maris wound...
...these movies were made abroad and could be seen in the U.S. only in art houses. For movies around the world, 1961 was a good year; for Hollywood it was, artistically speaking, a bad year, a slough of sex and spectacles. Yet now and then Hollywood eluded the cash nexus and the sin-drome and produced a good picture...