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...them not to stick together. The district center of the Marshall Islands is a bacillus-shaped coral atoll less than 100 yds. wide. A palm-fringed island with a glistening lagoon, Majuro shelters the most unusual mix of American expatriates in the Pacific. The island's biggest contractor is a Portuguese Hawaiian. A Massachusetts Jew manages the copra-processing plant. They are a demonstrative lot. When Majuro's American Chamber of Commerce got no satisfaction at a meeting to protest air-freight rate increases, members pelted the two Air Mike representatives with banana cream pies...
...followed with a series of quick, pacific gestures. He accepted a cease-fire with Israel and asked for a Geneva conference. Less than three weeks after ordering his armor into the Suez Canal area, he called in a building contractor, his friend Osman Ahmed Osman. Sadat's instructions: prepare a plan for reconstructing the war-ruined cities along the Suez Canal. Sadat told Osman: "I want to rebuild those towns right within range of Israeli guns. I want to show the Israelis that I don't intend to make war against them again...
...often is, the President was at the Barrages-which is north of Cairo, on the Nile-without his family. Although he seems hearty and outgoing in public, Sadat is a withdrawn, introverted man. He has few friends. His closest, wealthy Egyptian Contractor Osman Ahmed Osman, says he will sometimes be alone with Sadat for as long as two hours without speaking a single word. Says Sadat with satisfaction: "No one ever knows what I am thinking, not even my own family. I go alone." He says that the long months he spent in prison under British rule turned him into...
...Federal Government. Among many other things, the company is held accountable not only for its own programs for hiring and promoting minorities and women, but also for the affirmative action programs of every supplier that sells it more than $2,500 worth of goods a year. As a Government contractor, it is required to provide such information and thus sends out 28,000 let ters a year to these suppliers. Shapiro contends that the regulations are so excessive that if Du Pont were starting out today, "perhaps the company wouldn't make it. Even in the best of times, there...
...crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short-weights the church. It is also a place where, as Spellacy reminds us, new money and social pretensions cannot disguise the old-country "harps." On the fringes is an assortment of pimps, prostitutes, pornographers and eccentrics who seem cast from what the author has elsewhere referred...