Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in 500 years, the three key Arab states of Egypt, Iraq and Syria have a similar political posture and are on close and friendly terms. The new crowd in primitive Yemen, where 28,000 Egyptian troops are propping up still another pro-Nasser rebellion, is eager to join any alliance that can be hammered out. The monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King Saud's private Comet...
...currently has an ambitious working program, a number of eager volunteers, a fine reception from the community and broad plans for the future. The organization's future would seem to be assured...
Paintings were scattered all over the floor, ready to be hung, that day last month when Jacqueline Kennedy unexpectedly walked into Manhattan's Graham Galleries. With a trained eye and an eager appetite, the First Lady examined them, chose two (but left them behind for the show), went out the door and up Madison Avenue. Word traveled fast, and when the show opened, viewers thronged into the gallery. The artist: Thomas Anshutz, a nearly unknown turn-of-the-century American remembered more as a teacher of painters than as a painter himself...
...real estate. Searching for investments in Europe, he was introduced to young Saint-Laurent, who had been Christian Dior's heir apparent before he was called up by the French army and lost his position at the House of Dior to Marc Bohan. Stranded at 25, he was eager to design on his own. Robinson advanced him the funds, but has stayed out of the fitting rooms. "I am completely ignorant of fashion," he says, "but now I am having to learn something about it." The investment has worked well: the house of Saint-Laurent sold $250,000 worth...
...Eager to Go. Hailsham has a right to worry about the brain drain. Skilled people anywhere feel the pull of the U.S., but most noticeably in England. Every year 60 science Ph.D.s-about 7% of England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley...