Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wretched Humanity, terrorized in China, Southern Arabia and Yemen; dying of hunger in India and Palestine; beset by war in Nigeria, the Near East and North and South Viet Nam; stifling in slums and poverty the world over; and enslaved in East Germany and countless other nations...
...years old. In 1967, I neither burned draft cards, dropped out of society, demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam, meditated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, shot acid, popped bennies, smoked bananas, participated in the sexual revolution, grooved in the East Village, married a man thrice my age, grew organic vegetables in Topanga Canyon, nor forced flowers and love on passersby. As a paragon of abstinence in a world of shameless self-indulgence, I nominate myself as Girl of the Year, in hopes that such an honor will make next year a little more exciting...
Such incidents are, however, minor exceptions to an otherwise peaceful coexistence between the two peoples. Jews now frequent Arab restaurants in East Jerusalem, and Arab patients are freely admitted to the $30 million Hadassah Medical Center in West Jerusalem. The Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were scheduled with little change in the traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights...
...outside activities, from art shows to concerts to baseball games. Nearly every paper employs staffers for special projects; Yomiuri has 150, double the number of its foreign news staff. Yomiuri owns a symphony orchestra and professional baseball team, the Tokyo Giants, as well as a kind of Disneyland East, called Yomiuriland...
...around the world of Jersey Standard, or its range of activities. With 52% of its vast assets abroad, Jersey is the world's biggest private overseas investor. Thus "Iron Mike" Haider, in the course of a day's work, may be involved in everything from a Middle East coup to whether Jersey should eventually construct a 1,000,000-ton supertanker, or what the President of the U.S. has on his mind...