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...himself over the years to do what he could to ease the nation's financial burdens. A dozen or so unsolicited contributions are received annually by the Treasury Department from individuals or their estates. In the 1960s, an 83-year-old spinster in Huntsville, Texas, left some valuable cotton and cattle land to the Government. The land has been sold, and the money is being paid in installments ranging from $11,200 to $124,365. For the past six years, one man has been sending in checks for what he calculates is his fair share of the debt: they...
Pressure for economic improvement is mounting; left-wing Cairo university students demonstrated again last week for better conditions, and some workers joined them. Sadat has ordered extra supplies of wheat, meat and cotton cloth to be distributed, but even that is not enough. "The real problem," one leftist intellectual Cairene told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn last week, "is the deterioration of the economy. These troubles are not plots masterminded by some Marxist. The real generalissimo is hunger." That is one generalissimo who could be defeated by a Middle East peace-but who would surely win if the area returned...
Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well...
Rockefeller has been counseled by some to "practice up on greeting cotton queens and weeping discreetly at foreign funerals." That is probably good advice as far as it goes. A Vice President cannot make decisions or deliver significant policy pronouncements. But quietly counseling on the issues, mustering new talent and offering personal support in a hundred ways is possible. For the first time in two decades, and perhaps in history, the times and the men seem right to provide a new dimension in presidential stewardship...
...last time Baylor won the South-west Conference--50 long years ago--was closer to Custer's last stand than to 1974. Clearly the shock team of the Year of Upsets, the Bruins upended not only Daddy Darrell Royal's seven-year hegemony in the Cotton Bowl--some thought it should be renamed the Horny Bowl, after his Texas Longhorns--but gave superpower Oklahoma its only good game of the season...