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...people became the wealthiest on earth. The rea son: beneath the waterless desert lies one quarter of the world's oil. Though that fortune was all his own by dynastic right, Sheik Abdullah squandered none of it on sybaritic pleasures, used his billions in royalties to drag the once backward country from the 10th into the 20th century. Without collecting a dinar of taxes from Kuwaitis, he wiped out unemployment in a land of underfed illiterates, created an elaborate school system and the world's most lavish welfare state, rebuilt the mud brick capital city of Kuwait into...
Dennis is a great raconteur. He reminisces, drops names, and without changing his expression drifts into the most extravagant and obviously fabricated stories of his exploits. He says he cares only about the most dangerous undertakings and alludes to water skiing, drag racing, and track records he supposedly holds...
...choice, Wallace was the son of Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, ran the prosperous family weekly Wallace's Farmer (motto: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living") and the Hi-Bred (a play on hybrid) Corn Co. Believing, correctly, that the farm depression would drag down the entire economy, he later enlisted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first brain trust. Wallace wrote F.D.R.'s farm plank in 1932. Then he assumed the herculean task of implementing it as Agriculture Secretary during the first two Roosevelt administrations...
Jute & Jets. Yet Rhodesia is far from on its knees, and the longer that sanctions drag on the more impatient other nations will become to ignore them. Such, at least, has been the case in previous boycotts. South Africa, denied Indian jute, got all it needed from Pakistan. Businessmen find ways, moreover, to transship; U.S. goods have reached Cuba by way of Canada and Mexico...
Jack Ruby's case may drag on for years. Whatever the outcome, his trial left Authors Kaplan and Waltz with grave doubts about the sole issue in question-whether he was indeed insane when he committed murder before 80 million TV witnesses. What was confirmed was that a highly publicized U.S. trial is more than likely to become a circus. And what is worse, that even an unpublicized U.S. trial metes out justice largely to the extent that the lawyers on both sides have equal skill-and equal luck...