Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern Europe, a CIA team tries to obtain a sample of a Communist party chief's urine. Purpose: to determine his state of health. The CIA did this successfully with Egypt's late King Farouk but failed recently with Yugoslavia's President Tito...
...Even more important, perhaps, are the intriguing orange soil samples scraped up by Schmitt and Cernan at Shorty Crater. The soil may well provide evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the moon and could be the youngest lunar material ever brought back to earth. Said NASA Geologist Farouk El Baz: "The Apollo 17 site should give us clues to the real end of the lunar time scale, the time scale that is closest...
...enthusiasm on the moon was shared by scientists watching in Mission Control's "back room." Caltech's Gerald Wasserburg jumped up from his fourth-row seat and practically pressed his nose against the TV screen to see the coloring for himself. NASA'S Egyptian-born geologist Farouk El Baz, who had helped train the astronauts, beamed proudly. Even the space agency's cautious Australian-born Geochemist Robin Brett exulted: "We have witnessed one of the important finds in Apollo geology...
...else to do so. Though the introduction refers to the girls' "eloquent" voices, they all talk alike to the point of using the same expressions. Two or three call New York the "Big Apple" or the "City of Finalists" and equate comfortable working conditions with being treated like "Farouk...
Nobody Works. Farouk, indeed. Not even Charlotte Ford. That reference is an indication of how dated Olsen's girls are. None is endowed with exceptional talent, energy or beauty. What they have in common is a mystical, misplaced conviction that New York City is some kind of catalyst that will bring them undefined personal fulfillment, and that the office is the spot where the miracle will occur. Nobody works in this book; they just go to the office...