Word: everly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Qaboos is acutely aware that he needs Britain now more than ever, since Iran will no longer be acting as policeman of the Persian Gulf. For the same reason, he is anxious for the U.S. to play a more active role. "The Sultan is in the cockpit of conflict," says one of his British officers. "How he flies will determine the future of several kings, including King Khalid of Saudi Arabia. What he's done in nine years shows that he's got the hang of it. I'd wager when the time comes...
...Arab boycott of Egypt: Has any boycott ever succeeded? I expect the present one will be short-lived. We are brothers. Brothers quarrel but their quarrels don't last long...
...growers constitute a mere one-half of 1% of all farm families, but propping up their prices last year cost taxpayers and consumers $2.6 billion in support payments and artificially high retail prices for the sweetener. The subsidy system has also created an ever growing Government stockpile of sugar, currently 193,000 tons, that now lies rotting in Florida and Texas warehouses...
...comes happier news. Venice is still sinking ever so slightly from natural causes. But according to a team of scientists who have been watching water levels since 1969 in response to the worldwide hue and cry over the plight of Venice, subsidence from man-made effects has ceased. That, said Geologist Paolo Gatto, is "definitive and final...
...columns for which he won the Pulitzer dealt with tax reform, the ever shorter life spans of trends, inflation, the difference between serious and solemn, loneliness, fear, dying, a boyhood summer, Norman Rockwell and the death of New Times magazine...