Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many respects, the boycott and other forms of Arab hostility have strengthened rather than weakened Israel's economy. Because Egyptian cotton was unavailable, Israel began to grow its own. Because Israel had to trade far from its natural markets, it developed a large merchant marine (more than 1,500,000 tons today v. 22,000 in 1948). Because many foreign airlines refused to land at Israeli fields in 1948, El Al was formed. In a period of trouble for all airlines. El Al is doing relatively well (see BUSINESS...
Word of Trevino's feats soon reached Martin Lettunich, a wealthy cotton farmer who had been steadily losing bets to a hot local golfer at the Horizon City Country Club in El Paso. Seeking revenge, Lettunich telephoned Trevino in Dallas and offered to pay his expenses if he would come to El Paso and play the home-town star in a "sociable game." Trevino. who was broke as usual, agreed to come, instantly. "I shot a 65 and 67 and beat him like a tom-tom. I turned him every way but loose." That earned Trevino $300 and the chance...
...Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste. But what disappoints the tourist delights the resident artist as he sits on his fire escape in the evening, five floors up, smoking grass and listening to Dylan. For SoHo is nothing like the traditional fantasy of bohemia. It is irreplaceable, one of the few areas of New York...
School integration had gone remarkably smoothly in the steamy cotton town of Drew in the Mississippi Delta. A majority of white parents, to be sure, had taken their children out of Drew High School. But those who remained got along well with their black classmates; there was not a single racial incident during the entire school year. Last week, graduation exercises brought a year of tranquillity to a fitting close. Garbed in caps and gowns, white and blacks mingled freely under the gaze of proud parents...
...Education School's Student-Faculty Committee on Discipline has completed its face-finding report in the case of first-year student John McKean '70, and has submitted its recommendations to Dana Cotton. acting dean of the Ed School. McKean said last night that he expects to be told of the Ed School Committee's findings on Wednesday, when he has an appointment with Cotton...