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...board member and mover of the new development fund is a handsome, curly-haired young man who symbolizes a new breed of Arab businessman. His name is Bader Almulla, 26, and he is the untraditional scion of Kuwait's traditional fam ily of hereditary wazirs (ministers of state). Bader believes that "the Arab world is rich beyond present dreams. Here in Kuwait alone we have the means to achieve miracles for the whole Arab world." Schooled in England, he spent seven prodigious years as Kuwait's Secretary of State before resigning 18 months ago to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Where the Money Is | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...fall he plans to enter Lyons' National Institute of Applied Sciences to become an engineer, though he refuses to be pigeonholed too soon. "I am interested in everything I'm studying," he says. "I need time to learn and reflect." As newsmen swarmed over Jean's fam ily farm, his mother grumbled at him: "We haven't had a moment's peace." Jean has already learned the art of evading re porters ("I really haven't seen enough ab stract paintings to have an opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hayseed Genius | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...reforms get under way, Spain hopes to get a temporary summer fillip from the tourist trade (about $100 million a year). But for the long haul, Spain looks for U.S. aid to put the country on its feet. Since 1954, stopgap U.S. food shipments at times prevented near fam ine, and $460 million in U.S. aid virtually kept the country solvent. Last week Span ish newspapers were blasting the U.S. for doling out less than the $200 million a year that Spain insists it needs. Actually, Spain will get very close to that amount: about $150 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Enterprise for Franco? | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Death Was There. Inslerman, recalling his horror upon reading the letter, said: "Death was mentioned there. Bob was afraid of his life and the lives of his fam ily." When he delivered it to Jake, Inslerman testified, he asked some questions about it. Dissatisfied with the answers, Inslerman broke with Communism, but he waited 15 years to tell about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Witness | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

That he's fed to the teeth with his whole fam damily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring 50s | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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