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...post as Jordan's Ambassador to Baghdad and ordered to breathe new life into a wheezing administration. A onetime British army captain who takes Washington's New Frontier as his model, Tal installed a young, twelve-man Cabinet that included eleven university graduates, immediately fired 150 corrupt or inefficient senior officials in a housecleaning that swept out his own uncle...
...days of free-spending princes and corrupt politicians may be on the way out in Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich royal family, which has always loved its air-conditioned Cadillacs and lavish trips to Paris, got word last week of an austerity drive that will slash its private income by 20%-from $56 million to $45 million-with promises of more cuts to come. "The government's getting honest," said a surprised Saudi businessman. "We used to add 50% to all bids to cover the payoff. Now it's dropped to 10%-or maybe a little more, just...
Meanwhile, the Egyptians mercilessly attack Saudi Arabia's rulers as corrupt and sybaritic. One member of the Saudi royal house hired a French movie crew to photograph his gambols with girl friends. Prince Mansour delights bartenders...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...
After six years of fighting a hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...