Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lebanon and the Palestinian Al-Fatah guerrillas-not the intervention of Gamal Abdel Nasser, not the warnings of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, not the menace of an uneasy Israel. From Tripoli south to Sidon, from dusty villages on the edge of the Mount Hermon massif in the east to the fashionable sea front of Beirut in the west, violence continued as Arab fought Arab. In Tripoli alone, at least 18 were dead...
Whispering Campaign. Despite terrorist threats and pleas from Jordan radio to boycott the election, 10,000 of the 34,000 eligible Arab residents of East Jerusalem, the Jordanian sector of the city until 1967, showed up to vote in municipal elections. The Arab turnout helped return moderate Mayor Teddy Kollek to office for a second term. Kollek was thought to be in trouble because of an effective whispering campaign, sponsored by hard-lining Jewish religious leaders, that he was soft on the Arabs. But the shirt-sleeved mayor was supported by an estimated two-thirds of the Arabs who voted...
...state is linked to foreign trade," one executive says. And the domestic market promises even more. By 1975, personal income in California will have soared to $110 billion! But David Mahoney, young and relaxed at 46, turns out to be 180° from the kind of executives I know back East. He sits behind a modern oval desk in a palatial three-room suite of offices that he has taken over as board chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., a year-and-a-half-old concern formed from Canada Dry, Hunt Foods, McCall's and other companies. The place is plush?driftwood...
...Castro, a slight, handsome Chicano leader, walks with me through the broken, crumbling barrios of East Los Angeles and tells me: "We have a new nationalism now. There is no more Tio Taco, which is our version of Uncle Tom. We may be a few years behind the blacks in our militance, but we are getting there very fast...
...Midwesterners and Southerners who came to buy so many square feet of sunshine, and the blue-collar workers who filled the factories; hence the heavy strain of conservatism that characterizes the region. The third state, running the length of inland California, is largely agricultural and might as well be East Texas with mountains. The fourth state, defying all maps and imagination, is Hollywood...