Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jordan, captured by the Israelis during the 1967 war, is suggested as a possible site. In recent months, however, Middle East experts in both the U.S. and Israel have been thinking more and more seriously about a different alternative for a Palestinian state. Why not, they suggest, convert prewar Jordan into such a state...
...blondes, but in 1955 he married a Hashemite cousin named Dina, several years his elder. She bore him only a daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon married a brunette British secretary named Toni Gardiner, whose father was an army officer stationed in Jordan; a convert to Islam, she is known as the Princess Muna, Arabic for "heart's desire." They have two sons, Abdullah, 8, and Feisal, 7, and two-year-old twin daughters, Zein and Aisha. Last week Abdullah and Feisal were tucked off to a British boarding school with a fatherly message...
...Queen Elizabeth's woes have become even more acute since Cunard sold the ship last year for $8,600,000 to an American consortium, which hoped to convert her into a hotel in Port Everglades, Fla. Unable to raise money, the group sank into bankruptcy. The Elizabeth is scheduled to be auctioned off Sept. 9, and her future is uncertain. The Port Everglades Commission, the municipality's governing body, has decreed that the ship must leave the harbor by December. The pollution-control office of Broward County, in which the liner is moored, has cited her smoky stacks...
...battlefields of Anaheim with an ear-buzzing sense of overkill. Everybody was talking, but nobody was listening. It was just as if two tape recorders were shouting at each other. The futility of the polarized and polished dialogue made her recall the words of H.L. Mencken: "Did Luther convert Leo X? Did Grant convert Lee?" The missionaries were playing cannibals...
...chalk up an aggregate net loss. Six of the twelve major carriers already have reported deficits totaling $92 million for the first half of 1970. The biggest losers: TWA, with $44.5 million, and United, with $20.7 million. The airlines have obligated themselves to pay a cool $10 billion to convert to the jumbo 747 and other wide-bodied jets, the DC-10 and L-1011-$6.6 billion for the planes themselves, the rest for additional equipment and ground facilities. The industry has also saddled itself with costly new routes, and the giant jets are at least temporarily running up expenses...