Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dream. The economies of Egypt and Syria are far from complementary. They are separated by 150 miles and Israel, their avowed common enemy. But the proposed state answers to the most emotional political idea in the Middle East-the cherished Arab dream that Arab-speaking peoples should cast off the artificial borders imposed on them by the colonial powers, and assert the essential unity of "the Arab Nation...
...shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well as it caught the homespun simplicity and twinkling humor. Thanks partly to skilled editing, but mostly to its star's sheer self-characterization as an uncommon common man, the show was an uncommonly evocative historic document that made TV history of its own. Items...
...million, 200,000-kw. power plant in Italy, expect to sew up at least five other foreign contracts totaling about $500 million by the end of 1958. Target for 1967: the bulk of the business from Europe's six-nation Euratom combine, whose purpose is to build a common nuclear power grid of 15 million kw. Russia is reportedly building a 150,000-kw. plant for Czechoslovakia, a 100,000-kw. plant for East Germany, and two 400,000-kw. plants for herself-all to be completed...
...dividend arrears to preferred stockholders of Young's Alleghany Corp., which has working control of the Central with 973,500 shares of stock. Under the plan, each share of Alleghany's 5½% preferred stock would be exchanged for ten shares of new 6% preferred, convertible to common stock in 15 years...
...Alleghany got the good news, directors voted in Allan P. Kirby, 65, Alleghany president and silent financial backer of Young for the last 20 years to succeed Young as Alleghany chairman. Five-and-Ten-Store Heir Kirby, largest single stockholder in both Alleghany (516,500 common shares) and Central (300,100 shares), will continue as president, also become chairman of the executive committee...