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...great love for protocol, often eludes palace security and slips out for a walk in a nearby park, inadequately disguised in scarf and sunglasses. Although her wardrobe formerly came from European couturiers, she now mostly buys clothes made in Iran from local fabrics. She has also donated her choicest jewels to Iranian museums. "In the world today, the way I live and the way I work," she says, "I don't feel like wearing those jewels...
...instant popularity with Uganda's masses by expelling 50,000 Asians who had chosen British over Ugandan citizenship when the country became independent. The uprising was apparently both tribal and religious in origin. In a nation that is less than 10% Islamic, Big Daddy, a Moslem, gave the choicest spots in his 15,000-man army to semiliterate Moslems from his own Kakwa tribe. To fill other vacancies, he recruited some 2,000 members from the neighboring-and largely Christian-Lugbara tribe...
...choicest residential area in Bombay is Malabar Hill, where gleaming mansions and apartments house the city's elite. But the crown of the hill remains a jungle, thick with date palms and banyan trees, girded by two concentric walls that protect it from the encroachments of civilization. Inside the walls, amid the trees, are six low, stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas-the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds...
...holds reserves estimated as high as 1 billion bbl. but cannot be fully exploited until environmentalist objections are overcome. More oil surely lurks beneath the Gulf of Mexico. When the Government two months ago auctioned off drilling leases on promising lands off Florida, Exxon picked up one of the choicest areas by bidding $343 million...
...President's staunch friends Abplanalp and Rebozo. Nixon had, in effect, sold his friends 80% of the land that he had bought the previous year for roughly 80% of the original purchase price. But he had retained the heart of the estate: the Western White House, plus the choicest parcel of property fronting on the beach. It appeared that Abplanalp and Rebozo had made the President a substantial gift...