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...training at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, plus a few lessons in manners and the craft of kingship. The moment he returned to Cairo, he was plumped into an atmosphere of intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces, huge estates, yachts. Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons. (She now lives in Beverly...
...display, but granted honorable catalogue mention: the 1949 Ford, 1947 Studebaker, 1939 Cadillac 60 Special and 1938 Lincoln Zephyr. Wrote Connoisseur Drexler in an accolade that, by clear implication, also rejected a good many other models that have come down the pike: "These cars contradict the claim that the American public prefers what is ugly, gross, or even vulgar . . . The dollar grin, as the American grille is known abroad, does not represent our best effort...
Vice President for Asia? No one outside the Communist world can ever be certain how its devious balances of power stand. But such facts, signs & portents as are available on China flatly contradict the Alsop thesis...
This last point does not contradict Hooton's main difficulty with the field--back of professors to teach courses. Many courses are given by members of the Social Relations Department or the Peabody Museum staff whose first love is not teaching anthropology...
...this special agent die." A dozen textile workers vowed that they were so inspired by the executions that they would now step up their production. A Buddhist priest, Chu Tsan, member of the Peking Municipal Consultative Council, was quoted as saying: "To execute these counter-revolutionaries does not contradict the Buddhist command to avoid killing. By executing a very small number of reactionaries, the majority of the people will be saved, and criminals will be deterred from committing crimes. That is good...