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After Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, he advised the Americans to "choke on your fury," and when John Foster Dulles died three years later, he gleefully ob served: "The worms are now feeding on this rotten old man." Though he was more restrained about the U.S. during the Kennedy years, the "nonaligned" Nasser is now back in full invective form, as he proved last week in a tympany-tempered speech at Port Said. "Anyone who does not like our atti tude," he roared, "can drink the sea. And if the Mediterranean...
...effecting the repeal of the act that originally sanctioned the subscription project. The foes are chiefly admen, theater operators, owners of commercial TV stations and other subjective warriors, who make the argument that subscription TV may prove to be a Pandora's box. Subscription TV could conceivably choke off free TV, they argue, then later-with mounting costs-start slipping ads in to help pay the bills, with the result that in a few years the nation would be paying to watch TV shows that are as loaded with commercials as they...
...state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while metropolitan areas choke on inadequate roads...
...Manhattan's Graham Gallery. But eight hours a day, to make a living, he labors as a commercial artist. Harvey likes to keep up with the newest in art, and when he heard that Warhol was having a show, he dropped in. What he saw made him choke back an impulse to start a paternity suit. For it was Harvey who a few years ago designed the original Brillo...
...fetid slums that choke Latin American cities breed disease, crime and a numbing sense of helplessness. For most slum dwellers, there is seem ingly no escape from misery, and little incentive to try. Yet in less than three years since it was founded, a small but dedicated group called ACCION (Americans for Community Cooperation in Other Nations) has shown that Venezuelan slum dwellers can be helped to help themselves. In Venezuela, it is a sort of private Peace Corps...