Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With Israeli encouragement, more than 30,000 of them have gone to seek jobs in Jordan or the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Arabs charge that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available in Jordan...
...angry attack on Government food programs. Freeman demanded equal time from the network to refute the "greatest abuse ever seen on the tube" and "to assure the hungry of this nation that the Department of Agriculture is doing what it can for them-and wants to do a great deal more." He charged CBS with "gross errors of fact," but the network disagreed and denied Freeman's request. "We were right," answered CBS News President Richard Salant. Besides, "equal time only applies to candidates for public office, and I don't know what Freeman is running...
...American way of life, though, has to prove itself. Introspective and analytical, this year's graduate may buy it after all?but not without a good deal of criticism and suspicion. "People have always accepted our system without question," says Penn Senior Dennis Wilen in one of those crashing oversimplifications that ignore history. "My class will not stand for that." The questioning extends well beyond the Johnson Administration's rationale for the Viet Nam war to the inevitability of capitalism and the viability of present political systems. The graduates insist that there is a need to fight injustices at home...
...over brokerage commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued strong "recommendation" that the Big Board modify its commission structure to provide "volume discounts" for large transactions by mid-September. Currently, the broker's fee in a 1,000-share transaction is ten times that of a 100-share deal, even though the cost of executing the orders is the same...
...Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different version: she says he told her that "he walked a good deal of the way." E. H. Cookridge, Philby's onetime colleague in the British Secret Service, who is now a multivolume espionage historian, provides an account that rings with spooky authenticity in some details. He says flatly that Philby sailed from Beirut harbor on the Polish ship Dalmatova. Philby himself...