Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil. Smaller than Connecticut, the republic at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is so densely populated (1,250,000) that a nearly equal number have moved out and now live abroad. Some 500,000 are in the U.S., many in Brooklyn. Explained a Foreign Office official in Beirut: "Our people have been traders since the dawn of history, and they can sniff a business opportunity a long way off." Some Lebanese opportunity-sniffers in Brazil have been strikingly successful...
...crew that first spring in 1951 had tough luck at the intercollegiate rowing regatta: they capsized at the starting line. Since then, that same crew, still almost intact, has shown its wake to the best crews, become the Olympic champions of 1952. On the Potomac last week, in the Eastern Sprint Regatta championship at the Olympic distance of 2,000 meters, Navy aimed at a record unparalleled in rowing history: 25 straight victories...
...handily, beating Yale by half a length, Penn by two, with Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell trailing. Coach Callow, 63, was elated but still claimed to be worrying about his alma mater, Washington, which last week whipped its top West Coast rival, California, by six lengths. Navy, now the Eastern sprint champions for the third straight year, faces two more tough tests: the Western championship (without Washington) at the end of this month, the Intercollegiate Regatta (with Washington) in June...
...matter what happens in the Central deal, Murchison is busy on a bigger transaction. Last week, in Canada, the Alberta government, by okaying a gas-export permit, in effect gave the go-ahead to Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Eastern Alberta to Toronto and Montreal, with a planned spur to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The $3 million Trans-Canada pipeline, which will be half owned by Murchison's Canadian Delhi Oil, Ltd., will be nearly half again as long as the Big Inch. Murchison and his Canadian partners still have to raise...
Layer Cakes. Ernst Graeber is a simple German foot soldier with both hands in the crumbling dike of the Eastern Front in the spring of 1944. For Graeber and his comrades, hell is not only the Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...