Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donovan succeeds Calvin Gross, who two years ago was lured to New York from Pittsburgh after earning a reputation for creative educational innovation there. But in New York, Gross never learned the knobs and levers of the system, and thus proved unable to formulate or push ideas fast enough to satisfy the board. Now on three-month terminal leave, he still turns up daily at his office to mull over personal matters and help his lawyers fight for a hefty severance settlement...
...Islam, some pillars of the faith are crumbling. In Algeria and Tunisia, few town dwellers bother to stop work or play for the five-time ritual of daily prayer. In the cities of Westernized Syria and Lebanon, a majority of Moslems drink, and the percentage of those who fast through Ramadan is on the decline. In much of Africa, as British Orientalist J. Spencer Trimingham points out, "Islam and the pagan underlayer have blended"-leading to a mixture of Allah-worship and animism that would scandalize the learned sheiks of Cairo...
...organization: its creed is a simple affirmation that there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet. Undemanding in doctrine, Islam calls upon its adherents, if they wish to be rewarded at the Last Judgment, to praise God five times a day while kneeling toward Mecca, fast during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from alcohol and pork, give alms, and, if possible, make the hajj. Man's sexual nature is amply served by Islam, which permits four wives-providing they are treated equally-and unlimited concubines...
...defense cuts: ordnance, aircraft, communications equipment, electrical components and shipbuilding. State and local government jobs are burgeoning (they rose by 315,000 in 1964 to 7,200,000), but federal employment has leveled off, partially as the result of a government economy drive. White-collar employment is continuing its fast growth, has now reached 44% of the labor force; there have been corresponding decreases in unskilled and semiskilled jobs in the mining, railroad and construction industries...
...little wonder that the airlines are on a buying spree. Since 1962, jet transports have proved to be flying cash registers-twice as fast and three times as profitable as the best piston-engine planes. So efficient are the jets that Boeing 707s, for instance, break even with passenger loads as low as 39% of capacity. The industry's load average rose to 55% last year, enough to return the eleven U.S. trunk carriers 11% on their $2.3 billion investment, the highest rate in 15 years. This has produced some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare...