Word: crescentic
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...telling punches in the latest round of the Middle East war, but of their own relative maturity and realism. That new attitude was typified by Egypt's first lady, Mrs. Gehan Sadat, as she visited wounded soldiers in Cairo's hospitals and donated blood to the Red Crescent, the Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross. After listening to a broadcast in which Israel claimed to have knocked out 800 Syrian tanks while the Syrians claimed only 25 Israeli tanks, an Arab diplomat remarked: "You see how the Israelis exaggerate? Our side is cool and realistic, while they make...
...moneyed, from the Phippses and Vanderbilts to the Kennedys and Dodges. Winters were spent at Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room, $7,000,000 residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Decorated with Italian stone, tiles made in 15th century Spain, and tapestries from the palace of the Venetian Doge, the crescent-shaped, turreted mansion and its estate boasted a nine-hole golf course, 10,000 potted plants, and well placed sand that enabled the family pooch to visit the trees without getting his paws dirty. House guests received a list of activities each morning, new movies were shown at night...
...museum itself will be enclosed inside a seven-story glass pyramid. A crescent-shaped five story building will curve around three sides of the museum, housing the School of Government, the Institute, and over 12 million pages of documents from the kennedy Administration. Commonwealth Park, dedicated to the people of Massachusetts--who gave their land for the complex--will face the Charles River...
...into Tripoli from the airport, you encounter some of the enormous changes that have taken place since Gaddafi seized power nearly four years ago. The domed Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus still dominates the center of the capital. But its doors are locked, and the star and crescent of Islam have replaced the cross atop the spires. Everywhere, curling, zigzagging Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet. In front of the Souk al-Turk (Turkish bazaar), there is a statue of Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor (A.D. 146-211) who was born in Libya. A visitor would...
...kinds of good things might happen in the next 25 years. Lebanon, Jordan and Israel could agree to harness common rivers for electric power and irrigation. Egypt and Israel build a trans-Sinai railway from Tel Aviv to Cairo. All the nations of the Fertile Crescent join in a Middle East Common Market. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya each contribute one-half of 1 % of oil revenues toward the education and resettlement of Palestinian refugees...